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TIL The human brain weighs 3 pounds. It comprises 60% of fat and is one of the fattest organs in the human body. Human brain has the capacity to generate approximately 23 watts of power when awake. Of the total blood and oxygen that is produced in our body, the brain gets 20% of it.

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p89J4 TIL that the word quarantine comes from an Italian variant of ‘quaranta giorni’, meaning forty days, which was the period that all ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore during the Black Death plague epidemic. They would fly this flag known as “Yellow Jack”.
78DBO TIL that Eva Marie Saint, the Hollywood Beauty who starred in North By Northwest and On The Waterfront is 100 years old.
EwBp TIL that Colombians are obsessed with plastic surgery. The Latin American country did 375,000 cosmetic procedures in 2015 for both natives and foreigners, #2 per capita to South Korea. Thousands of Colombian teenage girls save money for years to have their first surgery at the legal age of 18.
W79Ao TIL that in 2021, before a Quebec City family-run shoe store closed, which had operated since 1936, a hidden door was found behind a shelving unit. Upon opening the door, the family discovered rows and rows of boxes of shoes that were manufactured sometime around the 1960s.
OO0R TIL the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that schools delay the start of classes until 8:30 or later, better aligning school schedules with the biological sleep rhythms of adolescents during puberty.