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TIL that there is a a font that makes reading text easier for people with dyslexia

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x6BlD TIL the human body contains detectable level of precious metals like gold, silver and, platinum
4k6ga TIL that in a cricket match in Bradford, England, all the 22 players involved were surnamed Patel as was the 15-year-old scorer
LkYXp TIL a study of Europeans vs Sherpas during an Everest climb found Sherpa blood had less oxygen but used it more efficiently by burning less fat & more glucose (the opposite of Europeans). Plus Sherpas have thinner blood which put less strain on the heart, & more capillaries to deliver oxygen better.
rRwad TIL Eagle Mountain, CA is one of America's newest ghost towns having been founded in 1948 and all but abandoned by the mid 1980s.
m7YE TIL: the bikini swimsuit was named after the nuclear explosions that destroyed Bikini island. The inventor wanted to imply the bikini was as momentous an invention as the new bomb. This was a time when beautiful women were “bombshells” and anything cool was “atomic.”