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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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WkJ98 TIL the Peruvian Navy still actively operates a ship that was built in England in 1862, disassembled into small pieces and shipped across the Atlantic, and carried by mules over 220 miles to Lake Titicaca to be reassembled. Its sister ship (sent the same way) also still works on the lake.
go98 TIL Jeremiah Clarke, an English composer, couldn’t decide whether to commit suicide by hanging or drowning himself, so he flipped a coin. The coin landed on its edge in the mud so he went home and shot himself instead.
J18Y8 TIL of "boosting", where disabled athletes with spinal cord injuries can boost their performance by deliberately breaking one of their toes
ANXww TIL the city of Jakarta has a "No-car day" every Sunday, inviting pedestrians to use the streets for recreational activity instead
KbDw TIL that NASA’s Curiosity Rover is not a small vehicle but actually the size of a car!