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TIL treadmills were used in Victorian times as punishments in prison

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xVKO7 TIL a tree was planted in memory of Beatle George Harrison in Los Angeles’s Griffith Park — and died after a beetle infestation.
XG0j TIL Widely regarded as the greatest achievement in collegiate athletics, Jesse Owens set 3 world records and tied a fourth…all in the span of 45 mins.
9wJ5X TIL darker skin people need more sunlight to make vitamin D. One experiment where a light skinned person was in sunlight for 8 hours saw their vitamin D concentration go up by 50x while a dark skinned person saw no change. They needed 5-10 times the sunlight length and then only saw a 30x change.
9wYw6 TIL - David Lee Roth (Front Man of Van Halen in the early 80's) Paid His Road Crew $100 For Every Woman They Brought Him Backstage
P1Ogw TIL that before the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, a B29 weather reconnaissance plane called Straight Flush flew over the city to determine if conditions were favourable. Its pilot, Claude Eatherly later expressed remorse, received psychiatric hospitalisation, and engaged in anti-nuclear activism.