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TIL: Baby swim diapers don't absorb any urine

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l7j6V TIL a dog named "Luks" sacrificed his life in order to save Josip Broz TITO
P1A9Z TIL A breakthrough in kidney stone treatment will allow them to be expelled without invasive surgery, using a handheld device. NASA has been funding the technology for 10 years, and it's one of the last significant issues in greenlighting human travel to Mars.
R0al TIL that, according to the Solomon Curve, drivers traveling 5 mph (8 km/h) above the average speed of traffic are statistically the least likely to be involved in a crash while crash risk increases dramatically when traveling below the average speed.
woK87 TIL that 51% of births are male because female fetuses are more likely to die during pregnancy
rREk0 TIL That sucralose, the artificial sweetener in Splenda, was discovered on accident in 1976 when a researcher was told to "test" a chemically modified sucrose molecule they had made. He thought he had been asked to "taste" it, so he did, and he found it to be exceptionally sweet.