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Pain does not equal gain, and soreness does not mean you got a good workout. The good news? The reverse is also true.

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W7xZ8 TIL a Victorian hack of growing rhubarb in complete darkness - except for the light of a single candle - produces a sweeter and redder result
oBQgR TIL First contemporary study to debunk the myth, that homosexuality is a mental disorder, dates back to 1956. Evelyn Hooker's experiment paired a sample of 30 heterosexual men and 30 homosexual men on equivalent IQ, age, and education, finding no correlation between homosexuality and mental illness
x6V6k TIL Silverfish can survive without food for over 300 days if water is available.
OoK9e TIL about Virophages, small virus-like particles that hijack the reproductive process of larger viruses for their own reproduction, and in the process sometimes deactivate the larger virus and help fight infections
w1E8 TIL that mathematician John Edmund Kerrich passed his time in Nazi captivity by flipping a coin 10,000 times. The total percentage of heads and tails flips varied wildly at first but gradually converged around 50/50, providing a demonstration of the Law of Large Numbers.