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TIL milk, orange juice, tea, and even cola are more hydrating than water

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Lk47r TIL that the American public found out about the existence of the atomic bomb only sixteen hours after the bombing of Hiroshima.
nWGGb TIL between 1969 and 1977, 95 African oryx (a type of large antelope) were released in southern New Mexico. There are now thousands of them in the state and that number continues go grow.
4kdQo TIL a naturally-occurring nuclear fission reactor once formed in an African uranium ore deposit and ran for thousands of centuries.
v1B9R TIL a 54 year old New Yorker called Darius McCollum has been arrested over 30 times for illegally driving New York City public transport. He claims an overwhelming compulsion to do this due to this Asperger's. He is currently locked up with little chance of release.
v1Yy8 TIL The lyrics for the MAS*H theme song "Suicide is Painless" were written by Robert Altman's 14-year-old son because it needed to be "the stupidest song ever written". His son wrote the lyrics in 5 minutes and earned over $1 million.