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TIL: weight gain happens because fat cells become larger in both size and number, while weight loss only reduces the size of fat cells, so you end up with a larger number of fat cells than before.

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NyZP TIL when Eminem heard Ice Ice Baby for the first time, he “felt like he didn’t want to rap anymore.”
R7O8j TIL Christian radio host Harold Camping predicted the world would end on May 21, 2011. Followers gave up their jobs, sold their homes, and stopped investing in their children's college funds. On May 22, his office had a paper note in the window stating, "This office is closed. Sorry we missed you!"
6JVJ TIL The first ever Windows Computer Virus was created by two Pakistani Brothers to fight against software piracy. The virus destroyed memory, slowed the hard drive and hid a short copyright message in the boot sector.
60kW TIL The greatest tank ace in history wasn’t a high ranking German officer, but a young enlisted Czech auto worker. He was never given a Knights cross because he beat up an officer he saw abusing prisoners of war.
neZJ7 TIL that Edgar Allan Poe is considered one of the founders of the Detective Genre. He created one of the first detectives who solves mysteries based on the facts of the crime. He is credited with inventing the “least likely suspect” trope, as well as the culprit framing another by planting evidence