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TIL that flexibility is not about muscle elasticity, but about training your nervous system that further muscle stretching is safe, so it won’t fire pain signals to the brain. We can all do a split under anesthesia

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pYBON TIL that Fort Castillo de San Marcos is a fort constructed out of cannonball-eating coquina stone (sea shell rock).
woLl7 TIL In 1958 the French Army invaded Corsica and planned to attack Paris. There was a crisis in Algeria at the time and French generals wanted Charles de Gaulle to return to power to deal with the issue. The invasion of Paris was canceled when parliament invited de Gaulle to be Prime Minister again.
eMWL TIL George Lucas originally planned to make a sci-fi film called “Space Pirates 9000” but William Friedkin urged him to change the name to “Star Wars”
b9AQa [TIL] The Milan Cathedral began construction in 1386. The façade was finished under Napoleon in 1806, and the cathedral was not officially completed until 1965.
m1kWO TIL about Plastivores. Bacteria, Fungi and even some insects that can break down and de-polymerize all kinds of plastics. Once thought to be rare in nature, Plastivorous activity is being increasingly found in a wide variety of places including sea-water and the Amazon.