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TIL the 100m WR for over 70s is 12.59 and was set with a headwind.

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VBG6k TIL the phrase "neither rhyme nor reason" is from Edmund Spenser. Elizabeth I told her treasurer to pay Spenser "what is reason." Edmund wasn't paid, and wrote "I was promis'd on a time,\To have a reason for my rhyme:\From that time unto this season,\I receiv'd nor rhyme nor reason." He got paid.
16a5D TIL about a Chinese cooking method called 'Velveting', which is a cornstarch and egg mixture that you soak meats in for a few hours prior to cooking. This provides more thermal mass which cooks the meat slower and creates a moisture barrier that seals in the juices for exceptionally tender meat.
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