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TIL that a skinny person has a more inefficient/slow metabolism rather than a fast metabolism

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JW0Q TIL of an Indian elite chef, about to take a new job in Switzerland was visiting family back home when he witnessed a starving old man eating feces for food. He was so shocked by the incident that he decided right there the he would instead spend the rest of his life feeding the poor and destitute.
QNNYd TIL a plant hopper (Issus coleoptratus) is the first species found to have functional biological gears
KYDYB TIL that the sun loses 4.4 million tons of mass per second due to the light that it emits.
PYr1O TIL in 1903, Dr. Horatio Jackson won a $50 bet when he and Sewall Crocker became the first to cross the U.S. in an automobile. The 2 month trip from San Francisco to New York City cost Jackson an estimated $8,000.
kO5r5 TIL The mile was originally 5000 feet, until Parliament changed it in 1592 to match up with eight furlongs.