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TIL female muscle stem cells are better than their male counterparts at regenerating lost muscle.

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e018n TIL Richard Linklater, director of Dazed and Confused, wrote a long first draft in about a month. He never made a penny off anything to do with it because he waived most of his rights to pay for the soundtrack
69KMX TIL about gunnysack dresses – dresses made from colorful cotton fabric, recycled from large feed and grain bags during the Great Depression.
oRJQY TIL The seven-day weekly cycle (Sunday→Monday→Tuesday→Wednesday→Thursday→Friday→Saturday) has remained unbroken since ancient Rome.
6Eda7 TIL Magdalena Solis, a Mexican prostitute was paid to imitate an Incan goddess as part of a scam. She began to believe she was a goddess so she took over the cult and began sacrificing her followers.
ZpY9B TIL Over 900,000 earthquakes occur worldwide each year.