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TIL experts can’t agree on what the best method of long distance running is, i.e. heel strike first or toe strike first. Each causes different areas of the leg and foot to be stressed.

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8mOV TIL the Grasshopper mouse is a carnivorous rodent that eats scorpions, snakes, and even kills and eats other mice. It also stalks its prey in the manner of a cat and defends its territory by ‘howling’ like a wolf while being immune to various venoms.
8e91X TIL about Tulare Lake, once the largest body of freshwater west of the Mississippi for thousands of years (3.5x larger than Lake Tahoe), resided in California's Central Valley before it all but completely disappeared in the late 19th Century primarily due to agriculture.
9Y1M7 TIL The United States technically has the right for two more votes at the UN which they negotiated with the Soviet Union in return for having Belarus and Ukraine join the UN. The United States never used these votes out of respect for equal representation of all nations on the international stage.
QJ8y6 TIL that Geoffrey Tandy, a cryptogamist (algae specialist) who was mistakenly hired by Bletchley Park, significantly contributed to breaking the Enigma cipher, utilising his expertise to preserve otherwise unsalvageable codebooks from a torpedoed U-boat
l7JQA TIL: Mochi is highly cohesive and adhesive, and easy to choke on causing many fatal suffocation accidents in the elderly aged 65 years or older.