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TIL metabolized body fat is excreted mostly as Co2. So you "burn" fat and breath it out.

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ArMn TIL there are giant clouds of alcohol floating in space. Near the constellation of Aquila, there’s a cloud 1000 times the diameter of our solar system with enough ethyl alcohol to fill 400 trillion trillion pints of beer. Every person would have to drink 300,000 pints each day for one billion years.
49Ng TIL the inventors of Bubble Wrap were originally trying to make 3D plastic wallpaper.
VMgXB TIL Abraham Lincoln's corpse was sent on a two-week funeral tour across America, shown openly to thousands. In the course of the trip the body visibly decomposed, bloated, and darkened. In New York City alone, the body was seen by over 150,000 and exposed to the air for 23 hours straight
nevw7 TIL about Ivan; a silverback gorilla who was kept for over 27 yrs in a small, cement cage for public display in a mall in Tacoma, Wa.
AG4w TIL the U.S. Supreme Court Building has a basketball court located on the fifth floor, named the “Highest Court in the Land”