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TIL there is a taste receptor cell in your urethra that can sense bitter.

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GvDG TIL the actor who played the dying Maurice Fisher in Inception, Pete Postlethwaite, was really dying of cancer. He died 5 months after the film’s release.
r91d TIL last year more members of The Army committed suicide than died in combat.
jm1n TIL the Paris Agreement “provides no consequences if countries do not meet their commitments” and “there will be only a ‘name and shame’ system”
XEdkr TIL that Michelangelo's statue "David" has a bulging vein in his neck that only appears during certain types of heart disease or during extreme stress or excitement.
5YxK9 TIL that Benjamin Franklin's many inventions include the flexible urinary catheter, odometer and swimming fins. He never got parents and wrote, “we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."