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TIL Melinda Liu not only saw this pandemic in 2017, but she, named the very town in China where it would originate.

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x6vK1 TIL that Lawrence Dallaglio, former captain of the English national team of rugby, is also a chorister on Tina Turner’s song "We don’t need another hero". He was 12 years old, when they recorded it.
wobA6 TIL that the US Government actually made a profit of $15.3 Billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program in the 2008 Financial Crisis.
7rJ8b TIL Chess grandmasters can lose 10 pounds and burn 6,000 calories just by sitting
neZmW TIL that every live of a mammal ends with a expiration(exhalation) , because while inspiration(inhalation) is an active process, expiration is passive, which means when we die we automatically exhale because the diaphragm relaxes.
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