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TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger picked up his first barbell in 1960, when his soccer coach took his team to a local gym. At the age of 14, he chose bodybuilding over soccer as a career.

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oBWR7 TIL selfies distort the face and can make the nose appear 30% larger than the rest of the face, and is linked to a rise in patients seeking nose jobs because they say their noses looked too big in their selfies
xeK5 TIL that after losing the ability to walk from Parkinsons you can still ride a bicycle perfectly. [video + article]
VMDgG TIL Sleep deprivation impairs the suppression of unwanted thoughts
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