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Official advice has been confusing, but the science isn't hard to grok. Everyone should cover up as masks work.

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yQajw TIL that the venom of the blue ringed octopus is 1000 times more powerful than cyanide, and has enough venom that could kill about 26 humans in a minute.
QJQa TIL obese people actually have a faster metabolism than normal weight or “thin” people.
78ed7 TIL that David Bowie’s final album, “Blackstar” was likely inspired by an unused Elvis Presley song “Black Star.” It contains the lyrics “When a man sees his Black Star / he knows his time has come.”
WxrB TIL that in the novel Around the World in Eighty Days, not once do they travel by hot-air balloon. In fact, the text dismisses the idea as “highly risky and, in any case, impossible.”
ZlPR TIL a British man spent three days pushing a Brussels sprout with his nose to the summit of one of the UK’s tallest mountains: “People definitely think I’m mad, and I’m beginning to think it myself.”