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TIL the human liver performs more than 500 functions.

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nrGb TIL that when a sheriff from Florida was asked, why deputies shot a suspect 68 times, he replied “Because we ran out of bullets.”
Wkge9 TIL that people in the final stages of hypothermia end up trying to enter small, enclosed spaces. This is called terminal burrowing, and is believed by researchers to be an autonomous process, controlled by the brain stem.
6Rxl TIL that when the US Navy refused to provide footage for the film Crimson Tide, the producers waited at the Pearl Harbor submarine base until a submarine left port, which they then pursued with a boat and a helicopter, filming as they went, until the submarine submerged.
9nlQ TIL One of the Congressmen who set up the House Committee on Un-American Activities was selling falsified passports to the Soviets and offered to spy for them.
RA1a TIL that it is so hard to swat a fly because they piece together images sent from their eyes to the brain, 250 times faster than humans.