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TIL If you sit at one place for hours (students, employees, truck drivers etc.), you have the risk of developing heart disease, obesity, diabetes, dementia, anxiety, indigestion, bad knees, cancer, bad back and it can shorten your life, EVEN if you workout several hours a day.

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R78Z6 TIL of the Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice, a London monument commemorating ordinary people who died saving the lives of others and who might otherwise have been forgotten.
O8dg TIL in the 1960s an Indo-American expedition tried to place a nuclear-powered monitoring device on a peak in the Himalayas, but it was lost in an avalanche. 5 kilograms of plutonium remain unaccounted for, somewhere near the source of the Ganges River.
Q7w6 TIL when the Titanic wireless operator got a message from a nearby ship saying they were surrounded by ice … he responded “Shut up, shut up, I am busy …” … and hit the iceberg 45 minutes later
ANLBx TIL: Ted Danson's second wife, producer Cassandra "Casey" Coates, suffered a stroke while giving birth to their first daughter, Kate. Ted spent several years caring for her and helping her recuperate. They later adopted a second daughter, Alexis.
1aZ58 TIL Stanford researchers in Costa Rica found adding a single tree to pasture land could boost biodiversity. For example, the number of bird species after one tree was planted went from near zero to 80.