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TIL Freshwater fish urinate almost non-stop

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x8LB TIL that in some cities police officers were required to wear a camera in order to document their interactions with civilians. In these areas, public complaints against officers dropped by 88%
M7e6m TIL In the 12th century Chinese Polymath Shen Kuo correctly theorized that rainbows are caused by the refraction of sunlight through water droplets
b6nQj TIL that James Barrie lost his 13-year-old brother in an accident as a kid. To comfort his mother, he started speaking and acting like his brother, and his mother always treated him as if he was his dead brother. Thus, Barrie later wrote a novel about a kid stuck in eternal childhood: "Peter Pan".
rvde TIL of the Byford Dolphin diving bell accident, where a human error caused a decompression chamber to go from 9 atmospheres of pressure to 1 in less than a second. Out of the 5 dead, one was ripped apart so violently pieces of him were found over 30 feet away.
5Yrwr TIL About the Wick Effect, when a human body is destroyed by fire due to their clothing having soaked up melted human fat which then acts like the wick of a candle – external heat/fire sources warm the body and then ignite it. It has been touted as an explanation for spontaneous human combustion.