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bD7E TIL during his undergraduate years, Newton made college notes that detailed the movement of water from plants to leaves - 225 years before the natural phenomenon of transpiration was first widely proposed in 1895.
70Ar TIL a stray dog followed a Swedish racing team through the Amazonian jungles and rivers to complete a 430-mile (688 km) race, just because one of the team members had given it a meat ball during one of the earlier halts.
10nP TIL scaphism was a form of ancient punishment where the victim was tied and force-fed a rich diet of honey and milk, and then left in the sun. He developed diarrhea, while his accumulated excretions attracted flies and insects who then fed upon the victim’s exposed flesh.