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TIL that whenever al-Qaeda organised games of volleyball, Mohammed Atef and Osama Bin Laden were forced to be on separate teams since they were both tall, and skilled players.

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4XxDo TIL Gooogle's first female engineer explained how she worked 130-hour weeks - by being strategic about when she slept, when she showered, and how often she went to the bathroom. She said that the nap rooms at Gooogle were there because it was safer to stay in the office than walk to your car at 3 am
4kVPg Today I learned that on average, Mercury is the closest planet to ALL other planets.
69RmX TIL that “costed” is not how you say how much something cost in the past. You just use “cost”.
b6Mkp TIL the supercentenarian Lucile Randon, who died in 2023 at the age of 118, had a twin sister named Lydie who passed away in 1905 at just 18 months old. Lucile used to say in interviews that she was living "two lives"—her own and that of her twin sister, who died when she was still a baby.
ADpxd TIL of James F. Fixx, who spurred the jogging craze with his best-selling books about running and preached the gospel that active people live longer. He died of a heart attack while on a solitary jog at 52 years old.