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TIL low-fat chocolate milk was a better rehydrating athletes than common sports drinks

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0E1N TIL George R.R. Martin’s idea for Game of Thrones began with his pet turtles. He said, “I decided they were all knights and kings…and I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom. So, Game of Thrones, actually began with turtles.”
l9gN TIL Liechtenstein and Haiti developed identical national flags independently of each other. No one realized until the two countries competed against each other in the 1936 Summer Olympics under the same flag.
699D7 TIL that Paul McCartney in 1967 once let a man who claimed to be Jesus Christ into his home and a recording session for The Beatles song 'Fixing a Hole'
dDZnB TIL famed physicist Richard Feynman donated "93 boxes" of papers and writings to Caltech, which has never digitized any of it and will only provide access physically in the reading room of the Caltech Archives to qualified researchers. Caltech holds no copyright on the work.
Vgj8 TIL that a Belgian man who was being evicted from his home when he cheated with his wife, rigged his house up with over 20 firearm traps. He even made a riddle for the next home owners but accidently shot himself with one of the traps. The Military anti-mining team took 3 weeks to disarm 19 traps.