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TIL when doing a push up a person is pressing between 69-75% of their total body weight

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YaJv TIL that under “mutual combat laws,” two people can tussle without legal intervention as long as they both verbally agree to fight before punches are thrown.
kOyxg TIL Dred Scott, following the infamous 1857 Supreme Court case that ruled he was neither free nor a citizen, was nonetheless freed along with his family by an abolitionist relative of his original owners less than three months later. He lived free less than two years before he died of tuberculosis.
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