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TIL That the reason you can see corn in poop is because corn kernels are coated in cellulose, which is strong enough to withstand the rigors of the human digestive system.

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kJnj4 TIL that in the early days of Fed-Ex, there was one time the company couldn't afford the fuel bill for their planes, so the founder took the company's last $5,000 and went to Las Vegas and won $27,000 playing blackjack, and kept the company afloat.
PYPZE TIL a study was conducted involving separating infant twins through an adoption agency to study nature vs nurture . The twins involved in the experiment were never given knowledge of the study and the findings never published. The records are contained at Yale and will not be released until 2066.
x7mo TIL J.J. Thomson won the Nobel in Physics (1906) when he showed electrons were particles. His son won it in 1937 for showing that electrons are waves.
nWpGP TIL that even with the two massive hurricanes in the past few weeks, the damages in the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster were nearly double that of Helene and Milton damage estimates combined.
neJdB TIL Callista Gingrich, Newt's wife, admitted to having a 6 year affair with him while he was previously married. Then she pushed him to have his first marriage annulled by the Catholic Archdiocese on the grounds his previous wife had already been married once. She is the ambassador to the Vatican.