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TIL about Misokinesia the hatred of fidgeting

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e0bQ4 TIL that Kobe Bryant helped develop the first prototypes of Hypervolt Pro, a massage gun which has become popular with pro athletes over the past several years. It allows players to treat their muscles while resting on the bench during the game.
7087 TIL Larry King has been married eight times to seven women, including to a playboy bunny, a math teacher, and a devout Mormon. He had been married twice before his current wife was even born, and he and his current wife married in a hospital room days before he went into heart surgery.
Y7VZd TIL extreme inequality contributes to 21,000 deaths each day
4XQEb TIL Mike Birbiglia is a diagnosed sleepwalker who jumped through a second story window while dreaming that a missile was about to hit his hotel. Birbiglia restrains himself by sleeping in a sleeping bag and wearing mittens at night.
bP8Z TIL that Amelia Rose Earhart actually has never held the record as the youngest woman to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engine aircraft; that record belongs to Richarda Morrow-Tait