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TIL our stomach produces about 3 to 4 liters of gastric juice per day

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b9gL4 TIL that it is legal to create a human- animal hybrid embryo, but it is only to be kept alive for 14 days.
KOyZa TIL about Hamish McHamish a ginger cat who lived in a town in Scotland. He rose to fame after a book entitled Hamish McHamish of St Andrews: Cool Cat About Town was published. On 5 April 2014 a bronze statue of Hamish was unveiled in Hamish"s honor.
vLvr TIL that Britons think that business executives with an American accent sound like a more successful person, just like most Americans think that a British accent is the mark of a sophisticated and successful person.
Meye7 TIL: Binghamton University researchers have been working on a self-healing concrete that uses a specific type of fungi as a healing agent. When the fungus is mixed with concrete, it lies dormant until cracks appear, when spores germinate, grow and precipitate calcium carbonate to heal the cracks.
yOYa TIL In 1960, runner Harry Jerome broke the world record for 100 metre sprint, but it wasn’t counted because Canadian officials didn’t believe a Canadian could run that fast.