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TIL that the world record for pull-ups by a woman is held by an Australian woman who did over 7,000 pull ups in 24 hours (7,079) “Moving forward, this literally forces me to question everything that I don’t believe that I can do.”

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7XO7 TIL that Doctors once worried about ‘elevator sickness,’ caused by the sudden movement of one’s organs inside the body when an elevator came to a halting stop
lo5Qa TIL Bayard Rustin was told to move to the back of a bus, but stopped when a white child reached out to grab his tie, before being scolded by its mom. He thought, “I owe it to that child, that it should be educated to know that blacks do not want to sit in the back”. He was then arrested and beaten.
XE7N6 TIL of James Lafayette, a former slave who acted as a double agent during the American Revolution. He was able to travel freely between American and British camps, and foiled Benedict Arnold’s plan to storm Yorktown. This led to the British surrender.
M76lV TIL a "Watchdog timer" is the name of a chip that allows a computer to reboot itself without human intervention if something fails. (e.g. a Mars rover in distress)
KOR59 TIL The world is made by the left-brained (right handed), prefers denotative language, what is known, fixed, static, isolated, decontextualised, explicit. A right hemisphere (left handed) modus operandi would yield a changing, evolving, linked, implicit world, the living not the mechanical.