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TIL Beyoncé requires $900 worth of titanium drinking straws to drink a special alkaline water to be served at exactly 21 degrees in every dressing room where she performs.

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W598 TIL, Theodore Roosevelt referred to Thomas Paine, who came up with the terms “United States of America,” as a “filthy little atheist.”
16JD4 TIL Men and women have different hearts and sex mismatch of transplants leads to higher death rates. Although males' bodies are more likely to reject female hearts, both sexes show 10% increased mortality when receiving a transplanted heart from someone of the opposite sex.
kGV4 TIL Japan had machines that can type thousands of different letters using just one key
VMaO4 TIL while the Venus Flytrap is available all over the world through cultivation, it only grows naturally in a small area of the coastal plain in North and South Carolina.
KYW4J TIL that in the 2004 and 2008 Paralympics, athletes with an intellectual disability didn't compete, after It was discovered that 10 of the 12 players of the Spanish Basketball team that won the gold medal at the 2000 Paralympics weren't disabled