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TIL that chess players can burn up to 6,000 calories a day while playing in a tournament. Based on "breathing rates, blood pressure, and muscle contractions, top players' stress responses to chess are similar to what elite athletes experience."

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b9dwp TIL that ancient Roman food counter (ancient fast-food restaurant) was called thermopolium. The one in Pompeii had this menu: remnants of duck, goat, pig, fish and snails in earthen pots, sometimes combined in the same dish.
EWwp TIL that at many military funerals, instead of a live bugler, a ceremonial bugle is used, which is an electronic device that is inserted into the bugle and plays a recording of Taps.
LwLm TIL that the reason for Yogi Bear’s collar is that it allowed animators to keep his body static, redrawing only his head in each frame when he spoke — a method that reduced the number of drawings needed for a seven-minute cartoon from around 14,000 to around 2,000
16rOD TIL that bird milk “contains more protein and fat than does cow or human milk.” 🕊️
R57G4 TIL the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the United States Public Health Service are home to their own uniformed service corps that are separate from the U.S. military.