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TIL Olympic bike racing involves biking as slowly as possible

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lod05 TIL that cheek dimples are a genetically transmitted abnormality of a muscle in the cheek. Also, almost all babies have cheek dimples because of so much fat in their cheeks which is required for suckling and causes facial depression. They disappear once the baby fat melts away.
MePya TIL that the Director's commentary on Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story introduces extra characters and half way through switches to the Director's commentary from There's Something About Mary.
0mO1 TIL A Man Wrote his Own Credit Card Contract Then Sued the Bank for Breaking the Contract’s Terms
jMGE TIL of Heinz Drossel, a German Lieutentant during WWII that refused to join the Nazi Party. He came upon a woman on a bridge who attempted to jump as soon as she saw his uniform, as she was Jewish. He stopped her and assisted her in escaping to safety. After the war, he married her.
Wyd4 TIL that Deaf people experience a “tip of the fingers” phenomenon in sign language, just as hearing persons describe a word being on the “tip of their tongue”