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TIL That Lennart Green, world champion close-up card magician was disqualified from the 1988 competition when the magician judges thought he must have been using stooges to shuffle the cards. He performed the same trick 3 years later, asking the judges to do the shuffling and won.

5bbn TIL: Dietary Cholesterol (those found in eggs, shrimp, lobster, etc.) are completely safe and are “not at risk for overconsumption.” Instead, limit Saturated/Trans Fats as those do much more damage.
j69JN TIL that nine year old John Clem enlisted in the Union Army during the American Civil War, shot a Confederate Colonel and was promoted to Sergeant by they age of 12, and retired at the rank of Major General in 1915.
jNLRR TIL that ergonomists could show a relationship between the ergonomic characteristics of the educational furniture and the number of cognitive errors based on Stroop test. They found that an error percentage reduction using separated chair and desk against arm table student chair.
m1Nky TIL Sir Rod Stewart has 8 children with 5 women and once said "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."
Ool97 TIL one of the first mass produced Treadmills were by Sir William Cubitt in 1818, who used it to torture inmates in jails of England. It consisted of 24 inmates side by side, with partitions. This pointless labor was meant to deter poor people from committing crimes to just get in jail for shelter.