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TIL In 2017 A Study On The Adverse Effects of Prolonged Sitting Behavior Found The Workers of 8 Hour Shifts Spent On Average 6.29 Hours Sitting

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yV9J TIL there is a highly venomous spider in Australia whose fangs are able to penetrate a shoe.
PYoQg TIL that F1 teams don’t own their tires, and at the end of each race teams have to return the tires to Pirelli. Even used tires must be returned to prevent industrial espionage.
DNdg TIL Scotch tape has an unusual property. When placed in a vacuum chamber, unpeeling a length of tape from the roll will produce an enormous amount of X-ray radiation. The reason why it does this isn’t well understood.
kaj4 TIL that Nick News With Linda Ellerbee is still running after twenty years on Nickelodeon, and Ellerbee has never missed a show.
xJNw TIL North Korea’s literacy rate is 100%, according to the CIA