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TIL that feeling sick is part of the body's attempts to preserve energy for the immune system and make you act in a way that signals to nearby people that you need help

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5Y7vD TIL that a 12 year old girl named Martina Maturana saved much of her village's population from being killed by a tsunami when she noticed boats moving up and down in the morning and ran to ring the warning bell
W8pA TIL that after four years of eating Cap'n Crunch with Crunchberries, a woman sued the distributor of Cap'n Crunch because she discovered that she was eating brightly-colored cereal balls, and that “Crunchberries” aren’t a real fruit like she had thought.
pYlnO TIL in latter seasons of the 1987 animated TV series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Michelangelo's nunchaku were replaced with a grappling hook called the "Turtle Line" due to censorship in Europe. Several European countries had banned nunchaku due to violence involving people armed with the weapon.
XDg6 TIL that after many publishers claimed the original Harry Potter novel “was too long for a children’s book”, Nigel Newton, chairman of Bloomsbury Publishing agreed to read it as a favor, but tossed it to the side, only for his 8 year-old daughter to find it, read it, and demand more.
X0XVD TIL that an average hurricane releases a phenomenal amount of energy through the formation of clouds and rain: about 5.2 x 10^19 Joules per day. This is about 200 times more electricity than humans produce planetwide.