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TIL Listening to music while working out measurably improves physical performance.

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5VW8P TIL that actress Brooke Shields is descended from both the Medici and Borgia families, along with both Harold Godwinson and William the Conqueror.
x6bMB TIL about the Chili grenade, a weapon made by the Indian Armed Forces that uses a weponized form of the bhut jolokia chili pepper.
dP17 TIL “The Most Interesting Man in the World” almost didn’t get the part. When told they were going with someone younger, his agent wisely said “How can the most interesting man in the world be young”. He got the part.
DQoee TIL about Josh Pillault, a person who got 6 years in prison for making threats on the MMO game Runescape
jN6PX TIL in 2002 a man managed to convince 30 people to quit their jobs and leave their homes to appear on a year long reality TV show that never existed.