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TIL Gray’s paradox (how can dolphins achieve their swim speed with their muscle mass) was solved by showing that their tails can change stiffness to keep high efficiency at different speeds.

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9YKe7 TIL The full name of the famous Chuck E. Cheese’s mouse is Charles Entertainment Cheese, and he has a depressing backstory. He grew up as an orphan at St. Marinara’s Orphanage, and because he never had his own birthday, he fills the void by hosting birthday parties for everyone else.
7rBEO TIL a British millionaire who bought the Segway company died after riding one of the scooters off a cliff and into a river near his Yorkshire estate
Xdo8 TIL Arland Williams sacrificed his life to save 5 other passengers from the icy waters of the Potomac on Air Flight Florida 90
aw4LM TIL that when Kubrick was researching for Dr. Strangelove, sexual metaphors for war came up so often that one of his consultants told a group of officers, "Gentlemen, you do not have a war plan. You have a Wargasm!"
6ENGl TIL of Paul Alexander, one of the last few Polio survivors. He's confined to an Iron Lung and paralyzed from the neck down, yet managed to graduate from law school and wrote his memoir using only his mouth.