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TIL that having a substantial amount of fat in the buttocks that extends to the front and back thighs and tapers to knee, causing a curvaceous figure, is called “steatopygia”

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wLG8o TIL scientist Henry Cavendish suffered from extreme shyness “bordering on disease”. He discovered several laws not attributed to him because of this shyness. Had secret staircases in his home to avoid his housekeeper -females caused him “extreme distress” and devised a note system to talk to her.
jWPE TIL that when Carrie Fisher was asked wether she knew that Star Wars would be as successfull as it turned out to be she said “Yes, I knew. We all knew. The only one who didn’t know was George. We kept it from him because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression.”
epdZE TIL about the 4x100m universal relay. It features 4 athletes with 4 different disabilities. Each team must be mixed, with 2 women and 2 men. The relay is started by a visually impaired athlete, followed by an amputee sprinter. In third place is a person with cerebral palsy, then a wheelchair athlete
8aZJZ TIL pole dancing is a 1000 year old sport in India called Mallakhamba
Z8jAD TIL Roger Cotes, a young astronomy professor at Cambridge, forced Newton to confront his mistakes in his work, Principia, and corrected many of them for him. Cotes bombarded Newton with letters for years, repeatedly challenging his experimental results as well as his theoretical calculations