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Til that your body has a relatively constant total daily energy expenditure. It will allow temporarily elevated caloric burns but the more days that you increase your expenditure, it will normalize your daily expenditure by showing or shutting down other processes.

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YpJax TIL that huffing gasoline is a real form of substance abuse and that it causes actual highs and hallucinations. It is also one of the most commonly abused household items for lower class people and also one of the most dangerous.
kOLNE TIL Stan Lee and Jack Kirby intended the Hulk to be gray. But the printing press kept having trouble with the Hulk's color and he kept coming out green. So he only spent the first few issues of his comic being gray.
nWKx9 TIL a “stimulant nap” combines drinking caffeine right before a 15-minute nap. Caffeine takes 30 minutes to kick in, so the nap isn’t disrupted and boosts alertness. Studies show it’s more effective than caffeine or naps alone, reducing drowsiness and driving accidents in sleep-deprived individuals.
xVygw TIL Charles Babbage lost 2 games of chess to the Mechanical Turk, an automaton with a chess player hidden inside that fooled people that a machine could play chess. He knew it was a hoax but it inspired his work on the Difference Engine and then the Analytical Engine, the world's first computer.
v10wr TIL about Kerogen, a solid, insoluble organic matter found in the sedimentary rocks. When continually heated, it leads to the slow release of fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas.