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TIL Most body fat exits the body through exhaling.

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5Vwop TIL that birds can get divorced. Over 90% of avian species form socially monogamous pair bonds, but they may end the bonds by 're-mating' with a different partner after so-called 'divorce'. Divorce rate increases with male promiscuity and migration distance
eAgk TIL that the WWII British code breakers had discovered the preparations for the German invasion of the USSR, but, although this information was passed to the Soviet government, Stalin refused to believe it.
VM7aG TIL between 2007 and 2014 the US National Security Agency had been breaking into Huawei's internal networks, including spying on their headquarters and founder.
yVllX TIL about "The Golden Evening", a night in July 189 when an American magazine editor JM Stoddart had dinner with Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde and contracted stories from each. Doyle wrote "The Sign Of Four" and Wilde wrote "The Portrait of Dorian Gray" as a result. Both now classics.
5xlP TIL 66 years ago today, the Berlin Airlift began. Landing one plane per minute for over a year, the airlift brought in 5000 tons of food and coal per day to Berlin.