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TIL cats’ kidneys are so efficient they can rehydrate with seawater.

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QvNE TIL The English town of Sandwich is 1.5 miles away from the village of Ham.
9b0M TIL Strom Thurmond holds the record for the longest filibuster by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes. He was opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He also later opposed ending segregation.
oRdGY TIL An unexplained phenomenon in neuroscience is the discovery that electrical stimulation in temporal neocortex can cause neurosurgical patients to spontaneously experience memory retrieval. (2012)
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RnE9 TIL that over 1 million white slaves were taken from Europe by Africans. Most were worked to death.