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TIL that in weight loss, ~84 percent of the fat that is lost turns into carbon dioxide and leaves the body through the lungs

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vLQK TIL Jimmy Kimmel called out a Gawker writer on live television for publishing false reports that he was drunk in public, telling her, “I know you’re an editor. What exactly are you editing from the website?”
Ay8n TIL it is “required” by the FDIC for financial institution employees to take two weeks consecutive vacation every year to help uncover cases of fraud. The logic being that someone else must do your work for 2 weeks and said employee will be unable to cover up their work for that length of time.
mXDR TIL that a tequila worm living on an agave plant is actually indicative of a lower quality tequila due to infestation
16M9V TIL of the submarine USS Tang. It was hit when it's own torpedo boomeranged. 89 crew with 29 trapped. 13 made it out through a hatch but only 9 made to the surface where they were picked up by the Japanese and taken to a POW camp. They survived the war.
VMEgk TIL over a century ago, poultry producers would pamper their flocks as winter approached to encourage hens to continue laying eggs. Today, the industry instead uses a technique of starving hens for 1-2 weeks. The practice is banned in the EU as inhumane, but is widely used in the US.