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TIL - Ants eat more meat than lions, tigers and wolves combined

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VB5ak TIL a study followed 14 contestants from reality series The Biggest Loser for six years after they left the show & found that losing a large amt of weight in just a few weeks was harmful to their metabolism. It slowed down during the loss & never recovered; the greater the loss the slower it became.
a84wN TIL that you are not supposed to rinse your mouth with water after brushing teeth or using a mouthwash, because the fluoride coating on your teeth helps protect against cavities and rinsing your mouth after dilutes the fluoride, making it ineffective. Instead, you should wait, preferably 20 minutes.
4Nd6 TIL That a company called The SeaStead Institute is trying to establish permanent autonomous ocean communities to enable social, political and legal system experiments. They plan on launching their first island 2014 and had recieved 500 000 dollar donation by a Co founder of PayPal
XEdN6 TIL about Hartmann a philosopher who believed that as intelligent beings, we are obligated to find a way to eliminate suffering, permanently and universally. He believed that it is up to humanity to “annihilate” the universe. It is our duty, he wrote, to “cause the whole kosmos to disappear”
ap89 TIL: It is legal in South-Africa to equip your car with flame-throwers to prevent carjacking.