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TIL that Volkswagen was once the most valuable company in the world - for exactly one day.

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6En6Y We’ve been conditioned to think of Covid-19 as a respiratory disease—but it’s not just about the lungs. Evidence is emerging that the coronavirus can cause heart damage in people who’ve had mild symptoms or none at all, especially if those people exercise while they’re infected. If you've just had Covid—even if you didn't have symptoms—you need to be aware of myocarditis. That’s cardiologist-speak for what happens when the muscular walls of the heart become inflamed, weakening the organ and making it more difficult for it to pump blood. It’s not a newly discovered condition, and it turns up pretty rarely, but when it does, it’s most often triggered by an infection. Strenuous activity while the heart is weakened can cause swelling in the legs, dizziness, shortness of breath, and—in serious cases—irregular heartbeat, cardiac arrest, and sudden death.
aL6M TIL there was a terrorist organization in the late 1940s in Brazil, made up of Japanese immigrants that believed Japan had won WWII. They urged Japanese Brazilians who did not believe them to commit seppuku, and executed those who didn’t.
KYEWw TIL The Loch Ness Monster has a scientific name, Nessiteras rhombopteryx. Proposed by Sir Peter Scott, it's Greek for "the Ness monster with diamond fin" but also an anagram of "monster hoax by Sir Peter S"
GALb1 TIL that bone china is made from bone ash, feldspathic material and kaolin, and it originated in the UK, not in China.
Z4mY TIL that two surgeons used a coat hanger, brandy, and a tube to operate on a collapsed lung during an airplane flight and succeeded