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TIL naked mole rats can survive 18 minutes without oxygen by metabolizing fructose instead of glucose.

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b9mXj TIL A statistician spent years writing a science fiction novel to teach university statistics. Even though he didn't know anything about writing fiction, he got an illustrator to create graphic novel strips for his story which contained the equivalent of 60 research papers
R7Zr7 TIL: The River Thames is one of the cleanest Rivers in the world that flows through a major city, after being declared biologically dead 50 years ago
rRJj0 TIL Crispen Glover's father was Bruce Glover, one of the most well-known characters actors of the 60's and 70's; a staple of television's hay-day appearing on Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, The Mod Squad, Mission Impossible, Adam-12 and Barney Miller. He was also in Diamonds Are Forever and Walking Tall.
ZyDQ TIL Vatican City is unable to join the European Union because the EU requires that all member states must be free market democracies.
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