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TIL that 30+ minutes of running 5 days a week has been linked to 9 years of less aging on the cellular level

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E1QNx TIL penguin poop will change Antartica's ecosystem. For the last 5,000 years, penguins have delivered roughly 16 million pounds of nutrient rich poop on the rocks of Antartica. This poop can one day support plants and animals which currently can't survive in Antartica.
ANY7a TIL That Jeffrey Dahmer's father held a theory that a double hernia surgery in his youth may have at least been partially responsible for his behavior.
nekmo TIL former actor Jake Lloyd, the man who played young Anakin in The Phantom Menace, was bullied so much for his role he quit acting and destroyed his Star Wars merch. Later he would be arrested for reckless driving without a license and has been transferred to a psych facility for schizophrenia.
enBL Today I learned that guard donkeys are used to protect livestock and can even kill predators like coyotes
WkD4Y TIL that doctors have the highest suicide rate of any profession, more than double the rate of the general population, and psychiatry is near the top in terms of suicide rates - with many doctors who have mental health issues reluctant to seek professional help because of the fear of stigma