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TIL Gastroenterologist Takanori Takebe won the 2024 Physiology Nobel Prize for discovering that mammals can breathe through their anus

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XwER TIL Production of the film Gone Girl was shut down for four days when Ben Affleck refused to wear a NY Yankees cap in a scene.