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TIL Drinking watermelon juice before a workout helps reduce muscle soreness.

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wLj66 TIL that the grading system used by schools in the United States is A, B, C, D, or F because teachers were concerned that students and parents would think "E" stood for "Excellent" in an A, B, C, D, E system.
lo0AB TIL that bats aren't actually blind - they can see quite well!
J1Nb1 TIL Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer attempted to erase Gaslight (1940) from existence as to prevent it from competing with their remake of Gaslight when it eventually released in 1944.
64gm TIL Mythbusters was going to investigate the insecurities and flaws of the RFID chips in credit cards, but they were strong-armed out of it by the legal counsel of the credit card industry
rND8x TIL Marcus Aurelius' decision to waive the imperial tax on the sale of gladiators was so popular that the transcript of the entire senate debate on the law was carved in stone across the empire, an expensive and thus unique undertaking. The tax break was estimated at 30-20 million sesterces a year