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TIL: There is a strong connection between physical exercise and mental health

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16BOO TIL that $100,000 were wired to 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh at the insistence of Pakistan's ISI Lieutenant General Mahmud Ahmed and he was meeting with Porter Goss and Bob Graham in Washington over breakfast discussing Osama Bin Laden when the attacks occured.
wLyxE TIL Mr. Rogers maintained a weight of exactly 143 pounds for decades by swimming and eating carefully, because kids who saw him on TV expected him to always be exactly the same weight... and because 1-4-3 are the number of letters in "I Love You"
xVaMg TIL that after a screening of Pink Floyd The Wall, Steven Spielberg turned to the head of Warner Brothers and said “What the fuck was that?”
P1LQL TIL: that WD40 Literally stands for Water displacement 40th formula
Lkrgv TIL that the Soviets told the inventor of the Theremin that "electricity is not good for music; electricity is to be used for electrocution" and then fired him