› added 3 years ago

165

TIL if you lose fat weight, 84% of that comes out through your lungs. In other words, nearly all the weight we lose is exhaled.

Read more cnn.com

via reddit.com

N7Nl6 TIL that France's second-most popular sandwich is just ham, slices of butter and a baguette.
N7KLM TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien considered a sequel to the LOTR trilogy called The New Shadow. Set 100 years later during the Age of Man, he quickly abandoned the idea because “it proved both sinister and depressing.”
DQmPD TIL that in 1170, Catholic Archbishop Thomas Becket was ambushed in Canterbury Cathedral by four knights who believed King Henry II wanted him dead. They swing at him with their swords. One sliced off the top of his skull, spilling his brains across the altar.
xYAb TIL: When asked to surrender at Waterloo, French commander Cambronne replied with a single word: “Merde” (Shit)
gMdM8 TIL about elevator operator Betty Oliver, who survived a 75-story fall from the Empire State Building in 1945 when a B-25 crashed into it due to fog. 3 crewman and 11 people in the building died. Betty, who died in 1999, still holds the Guinness World Record for longest survived elevator fall.