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TIL that Fasting is beneficial to the immune system by triggering stem cell regeneration

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b9gpN TIL about Claudette Colvin, a 15 year old African American girl from Montgomery, AL who was arrested in 1955 after she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white woman, telling the bus driver, "It's my constitutional right to sit here." She did this 9 months prior to Rosa Parks' famous protest.
m1m4R TIL that in Switzerland, it is illegal to own just one guinea pig because they are social animals and need companionship
VvPk TIL that a man quit his job to test a theory that if you deliberately practice something for 10,000 hours you can become an overachiever in any field. He is now a 4 handicap and 3 off becoming a PGA Tour Professional Golfer, having never played prior to this project.
4krZN TIL For the movie Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Natalie Wood almost did not get the role of Judy because Nicholas Ray thought that she did not fit the role of the wild teen character. Ray was convinced when someone at the hospital called her a "goddamn juvenile delinquent" after her car accident.
wYY6 TIL: World now has ‘more people dying from obesity than malnutrition’ | Metro News