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TIL that athletes and couch potatoes burn the same number of calories

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5VP6Q TIL actor Joe Pesci hated the early unit call times in “Home Alone” since they prevented him from starting his day with nine holes of golf as he liked to do. After Pesci took the Assistant Dir. by the collar one day to complain about it, the call times were moved back from 7 to 9 A.M. just for him.
me4p TIL James Monroe, the fifth President, received every Electoral College vote except one. The holdout: a New Hampshire delegate who wanted to preserve the legacy of George Washington, the first and only President elected unanimously by the Electoral College.
wLK8M "Suicides are on the rise across the US and have become the second leading cause of death in many age groups."
wPl7 TIL The rule “The Captain goes down with the ship” was not intended to save ship, passengers or crew, but to prevent others from claiming cargo as salvage.
xwXb TIL that the extra years on sentencing beyond death (e.g. “life without parole plus 1,000 years”) is both a symbolic way for a judge to condemn someone as truly guilty and console a victim, as well as a practical way to make it more difficult for someone to get out prison