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D1mvJ TIL that there is enough DNA in the average person’s body to stretch from the Sun to Pluto and back — 17 times
KYg1G TIL that brothers Leon and Michael Spinks each won Gold Medals in Boxing at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal - Leon as a Light Heavyweight and Michael as a Middleweight.
brX0 TIL that Olympic skeet shooting was open to both sexes … until a woman won gold in 1992.
0d56y TIL that Mozart once composed an aria designed to make a soprano's head bob like a chicken while singing, just to mock her.
e0M74 Till, the invention of artificial refrigeration 1904, and various poultry raising techniques eggs were seasonal to the majority of the population. Farmers used various feed/light methods to trick hens into thinking it was spring and laying eggs year-round. Today eggs are a staple of most diets.