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TIL the “Runners High” we experience after exercise likely has little to do with Endorphins, and is instead a result of internally produced Canabbinoids

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M7DJb TIL diesel was named after the inventor of the same name, Rudolf Diesel
6EQkW TIL In 1710, famous author Jonathan Swift wrote an article on "the continual Corruption of our English Tongue" in which he described the word "bamboozle" as one of the words that were in his opinion, "corroding, if not destroying, the English language"
W7LnY TIL that average cumulus cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds or 500,000 kilograms. That's about the same as 40 school buses.
e54b TIL - Truckers throw out gallon jugs of urine and bags filled with feces out their windows, and it’s an actual problem.
VMWM8 TIL that Tucker Carlson, before joining journalism, had applied to the CIA but his application was denied.