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Yp0lW TIL Ken Jennings won over 3 million dollars with a 74 day win streak in Jeopardy.
VMe6D TIL that the thinking--i.e. non-physical activity--involved in mentally rigorous activities such as chess can require so much of the body's energy that individuals can burn hundreds of calories per hour engaging in them.
9YVnG TIL that In 1880, Doctor Washington Sheffield of New London, CT manufactured toothpaste into a collapsible tube. He had the idea after his son traveled to Paris and saw painters using paint from tubes
GAWjG TIL about Maximilian I, the last Emperor of Mexico. A member of the House of Habsburg, he acceded to the throne led by the misguided belief that a sham referendum conducted in his favor by the French was legitimate. He was executed by republican forces in 1867, only 3 years after his accesion.
7dvL TIL in 2001 the Heinz Hero Dog of the Year was an Australian Blue Heeler that saved his elderly owner from an alligator attack in the dark. The woman had fallen in her yard at night. She heard the gator coming towards her before the dog ambushed it, fighting the reptile until it fled in defeat.