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TIL Fifteen minutes of shivering from cold temperatures can be the metabolic equivalent of 1 hour of exercise.

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d85Ad TIL that the dinosaur noises in the "Jurassic Park" movie were made from recordings of tortoise sex.
GbA7 Today I learned that Stephen King’s ‘It’ clown appears every 27 years. The original movie aired in 1990. The new remake airs in 2017.
4k9xX TIL because of her mental illness history & how she presented early on, a woman catatonic for 20 yrs wasn't tested for an autoimmune disease until a doctor who was there when she was first admitted in 2000, came across her again in 2020. This led to her lupus diagnosis & treatment which woke her up.
XElrE TIL that in 1969, Sir David Attenborough was the BBC's Director of Programmes and was responsible for commissioning Monty Python's Flying Circus.
LkrJP TIL women (and only women) used to be banned from smoking in public.