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TIL the lungs perform the vast majority of or bodies excretion. The majority of weight we lose daily is though our breath, not our butts.

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gM4db TIL Exxon Valdez spilled 11 million gallons into in Alaska. The oil slick killed 250,000 seabirds, 3,000 otters, 300 seals and 22 killer whales. The captain of the ship let unlicensed third mate to steer the ship to a well known hazard-Bligh Reef.
ne5Z7 TIL if you hold in a fart, some of it gets expelled through your lungs.
DQ0EV TIL the Chinese had incense clocks in which a trail of an incense with a known rate of combustion was laid out under a labyrinth and the time calculated.
8av9K TIL Conrad Heyer is the earliest born person to be photographed. He was born in 1749 and sat for a photo in 1852 at age 103. He is the only known photographed revolutionary war soldier to have crossed the Delaware with George Washington.
xVO8g TIL that the United States Airforce Thunderbirds Demonstration Squadron, are part of the USAF combat force and can be rapidly integrated into an operational fighter unit and be combat ready in less than 72 hours if the need arises.