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TIL about the cross education effect, a neurophysiological phenomenon where exercising one of your limbs will improve strength in the other.

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VMBQk TIL of the belief that English should return to it's original roots by removing all words coming from romance languages, Latin, Greek etc. Leaving only the Germanic ones. This includes coining new words based on German or reviving old ones.
OoPX4 TIL that the movie, Scooby Doo (2002) was aiming for a PG-13 rating. Shaggy was set to be a stoner, and there were a lot of marijuana references. However this was changed to be "family friendly." In 2017, the 15th anniversary of the release of the film, it revealed there was an R-rated cut of it.
EQ10 TIL the main Slim Jim factory shut down for good the day Randy Savage died
vBpx TIL That there is a star 50 light-years from earth in the constellation Centaurus (BPM 37093) that is pure crystallized carbon, which means it is a dimond that weighs 10 billion trillion trillion carats. Written out that would be 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 carats.
07Wp TIL that the SR 71 design could actually go to mach 6 speeds if it wasn’t for the material melting past mach 3.3