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TIL Green beans and other vegetables can cause your microwave to arc

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6EdNZ TIL the word Gymnasium comes from the Greek word Gymnazein which means to exercise naked.
nWJKG TIL that 'double muscled' mice, having a deficiency of myostatin(a protein that inhibits muscle growth), are found to have excessive muscle growth but impaired force generation; i.e. they are more muscular, but not necessarily stronger
gMv87 TIL In 1997 Dana Carvey underwent heart bypass surgery and the surgeon operated on the wrong artery resulting in a medical malpractice lawsuit which Carvey won $8 Million USD and donated to charity.
LkOjP TIL that when a man had a heart attack at a grocery story in rural Minnesota, 20 people lined up and performed CPR on him for over an hour and a half until paramedics arrived - and he survived
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