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TIL every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

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5VwYP TIL In 2014, a regular 27 year old Lars Mittank disappeared from Bulgaria's Varna Airport after a vacation with his buddies. Bizarrely he was last seen on CCTV fleeing the terminal and airport, and was never found. Theories include a psychotic break after getting punched in the ear.
RE1Q TIL coconut water (when filtered) can be used as an intravenous infusion to hydrate the body.
5AmQ TIL: The robot cop in futurama is named URL (pronounced Earl)
a8B5L TIL that Michael Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg, typed 313 books word for word to distribute them online free of cost. Today, the project has over 70.000 free eBooks.
ANJDg TIL in 2013 Jeff Bezoz launched a 3 month expedition to recover a F1 engine used on the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket from a depth of 14,000 feet off the floor of the Atlantic ocean. The engine currently resides in the National Air and Space Museum and is the only recovered flown F1 engine.