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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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nBlB TIL of Terry Ryan, a 13 year old Australian schoolboy who was kidnapped along with his friend Peter Aston by two strangers in 1982. Ryan only survived by helping in the assault, live burial and eventual murder of his friend. His kidnappers then dropped him home.
X0BEX TIL hippos have a reflex that allows them to automatically surface, take a breath, and sink back down while sleeping
X0Mek TIL that men used to wear heels long before women started wearing them.
J1ywQ TIL that the Great Irish Potato Famine had caused such a profound population decline in the country that it took the population 170 years to rebound. In 2021, Ireland’s population exceeded 5 million for the first time since 1851, and it has still yet to fully recover.
Wv88 TIL aluminum Christmas trees were popular in the 50’s and early 60’s; when the Charlie Brown Christmas special aired, sales dropped dramatically to the point where they were taken out of the market.