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TIL of Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari, once the fattest man on Earth at 610 kg (1,340 lb), he started losing weight in 2013 and by 2017 after only 4 years he had successfully lost 542 kg (1,195 lb) and reached an healthy weight of 68 kg (150 lb), it was the biggest weight loss ever recorded

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nWJ7Y TIL about Deep Lake, a lake in Antarctica that has such high salinity, 10 times saltier than the oceans, that it never freezes, even in the winter. Conditions in the lake are so hostile that almost nothing can survive there.
yQ4dV TIL Einstein's last paper on quantum physics before departing from the field argued that it's an "incomplete" solution to a fundamental problem, with him writing that God "does not play dice." Ironically, the paper was highly influential and paved the way for decades of progress in quantum physics.
71XO TIL: In a 2012 British random sampling of 68 recent convictions involving child sexual exploitation, 59 of the offenders were Pakistani men, that is approximately 87%.
nxY TIL that HeLa, the oldest human cell line used in scientific research, is derived from cervical cancer cells of a patient in 1951 and is so self-persistent that it is considered by some to be its own species.
PL0Z TIL that the movie “Jaws” was supposed to feature a mechanical shark, but after several malfunctions, Spielberg decided to film from the shark’s point of view and suggest the presence of the shark via composer John William’s musical theme