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TIL Most body fat exits the body through exhaling.

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remM TIL An American gymnast with a wooden leg won six medals, including three gold, in a single day at the 1904 Olympics. He was the only Olympian to have competed with a prosthetic limb for the next 100 years, until 2008.
ne5n7 TIL that in the California Condor Recovery Plan, researchers and breeders removed condor eggs and used condor puppets to raise and feed the chicks from those eggs. Parent condors would then lay more eggs to replace the taken eggs, thus increasing their reproductive rate.
e0YlL TIL that 80% of books published 1924-63 never had their copyrights renewed and are now in the public domain
yV09l TIL There isn’t a single stop sign in Paris
9YDgD TIL that Southwest China has a "cliff village", 800 meters above the ground. The only way to the outside world from the village was to climb down 17 rattan ladders, among which were two linked vertical rattan ladders 100 meters long.