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TIL that your brain alone accounts for 20-25% of your daily metabolic rate/oxygen consumption due to how large it is

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Yp6Br TIL about Pierre Brassau, a painter, who sold one painting for 742$ at his very first exhibition in 1964, when he was only four years old.
4koWw TIL that Frederic Baur, the inventor of the Pringles can, was so proud of his creation that when he passed away in 2008, his family honored his request to be buried in one. His invention kept the chips fresh and intact while becoming a cultural icon
vZAx TIL that Hack the System blogger Maneesh Sethi hired women from Craigslist to yell and slap him for procrastinating or getting off task from his work. His work productivity went up and he improved at his job.
GAgO1 TIL the Epic of Gilgamesh, humanity's 1st recorded story mentions a man called Utnapishtim. The Gods tasked him with building an ark for his family and 2 animals from each species to survive a flood they would create because of Humanity's sins. All this is really similar to the story of Noah's ark.
78axr TIL that the mascot of the city of Hidalgo, TX is a 10-foot high, 24-foot-long killer bee statue. It was erected in 1992 to commemorate Hidalgo as the first American city to be invaded by an aggressive strain of African bees that resulted in public panic. The bees were initially released in Brazil.