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TIL the “breathing fluid” from the film The Abyss is real and was successfully tested on a human.

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aLv9 TIL there is a tribe in India that has learned how to train the roots of fig trees to create natural suspension bridges that can span over 100 feet, and last 500-600 years.
grEr9 TIL about the Battle of Jutland. Lasting only two days, it was the largest naval battle of the First World War, involving 250 ships and around 100,000 men. In the end, 6,000 British and 2,500 German sailors were dead. The British lost 14 ships to the Germans' 11.
E1Nx7 TIL that Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) can be caused by many factors, the most alarming being childhood trauma.
pYY08 TIL beetles make up roughly 25% of all life on planet earth
0w8d1 TIL of Jean Lanfray, a labourer who murdered his wife and children in a drunken rage in Switzerland in 1905. His murders were blamed solely on the influence of absinthe, despite the fact that he’d drunk many other alcoholic beverages. It set off a moral panic, and Switzerland soon banned absinthe.