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TIL about 'non-responders'. Not everyone can run daily and improve. 20% of people will feel the same after a few weeks as they did on the first day, while some people can get fitter quickly. This is the same for all exercises.

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gMweL TIL about Marco Bragadin gruesomely killed, first dragged around with sacks of stone on his back; then tied to a chair and hoisted up a Turkish flagship, then tied to a column and flayed alive, then his skin was stuffed and redressed in his military clothes, then rode on an ox around town
woKZ6 TIL that a startup genetically engineered a houseplant with the air purification power of 30 ordinary plants
mxLLM TIL that the creators of the Game of Thrones TV series, Benioff and Weiss, had no prior experience in television and only limited experience writing movie scripts. Their original pilot episode was so poorly received at test screenings that HBO demanded that they re-shoot 90% of it.
gM4db TIL Exxon Valdez spilled 11 million gallons into in Alaska. The oil slick killed 250,000 seabirds, 3,000 otters, 300 seals and 22 killer whales. The captain of the ship let unlicensed third mate to steer the ship to a well known hazard-Bligh Reef.
Z8kAp TIL that the tallest pyramid in the world is a hotel in North Korea. Constructed in 1992, the Ryugyong Hotel has no finished interior as a result of an economic crisis and famine that hit in the following year, and was edited out of official photographs and maps until 2008.