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TIL that our body uses glucose to recover from viral infections whereas bacterial infections use up ketones that can be released by fasting

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OG0a7 TIL almost 100 years before railroads, England’s Bridgewater Canal made it so one horse could pull 30 tons of coal, dropping the fuel price in half. It was so successful that it created a 1770’s “canal mania” starting the Industrial Revolution.
8pEL TIL that from 9PM to 12AM, Netflix accounts for 33% of all bandwidth in North America.
xVLlb TIL: The analogy about frogs not jumping out of water that is slowly raised to boiling stems from a 19th-century experiment demonstrating just that ... but the frog previously had its brain removed.
n1BW TIL that when Jimi Hendrix was once asked how it felt to be the world’s greatest guitarist, he replied: ‘I don’t know, go ask Rory Gallagher’
KBnQ TIL EINSTEIN once declared that his second greatest idea after the theory of relativity was to add an egg while cooking soup in order to produce a soft-boiled egg without having an extra pot to wash.