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TIL: “A lack of physical activity is one of the leading causes of preventable death worldwide.”

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b6gJ4 TIL since 1998, officials at the Library of Congress have been looking for the exact books Thomas Jefferson sold to the library which were later lost in a fire in 1851. They’ve located over 4,000 exact replacements with the same publisher, date, and edition as Jefferson's 4,324 original volumes.
OG9Pe TIL humans are the "most sensitive" to the castor oil seeds: it takes 1 to kill a full grown human, 11 to kill a dog, and a massive dose of 80 to kill a duck. The seeds contain ricin which is roughly 6000 times more poisonous than cyanide.
bj4p TIL: Actor Christopher Lee was a cousin of James Bond author Ian Fleming and a relative of American general Robert E. Lee.
QNK76 TIL that the deepest building in Europe is located in Portugal. It's inside "Quinta da Regaleira", and it's the inverted tower, a building that is 27 meters underground and consists of 9 levels.
x6V0k TIL mathematician Kurt Godel starved himself to death for fear of being poisoned