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

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epmQn TIL that the South’s portrayal of the Civil War primarily being about “State Rights” was a narrative that was pushed after the war with the book Lost Cause.
5YxY9 TIL in 1614 a Japanese samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga stabbed a Spanish soldier in Acapulco, Mexico as recorded by the grandson of an Atztec nobleman.
J1PZj TIL Jonathon Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, published a book in 1722 called Benefit of Farting Explained. It included different types of farts like “the sonorous and full-toned or rousing fart,” “the double fart,” “the soft fizzing fart,” “the wet fart” and “the sullen wind-bound fart.”
drX7 TIL that in Monrovia, Liberia, a man with a ‘blackboard blog’ brings up-to-date information to people. For over 10 years, he has used a public bulletin board and painstakingly written out the day’s news for all to see, all at no charge. He has an audience of over 10,000 readers.
9bYM TIL that while attending the University of Tennessee, Peyton Manning, pulled down his shorts and sat on a female trainer’s face during an examination. He proceeded to rub his rectum and testicles on the woman’s face until she was able to free herself from him.