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TIL : There are special bins in Mexico City in which people can deposit their dog’s poop for free WI-FI, the container measured the weight of the poop then emitted a set number of minutes of free Wi-Fi for every pound of feces it collected.

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nBYG TIL that 1 week of camping, without electronics, resets our biological clock and synchronizes our melatonin hormones with sunrise and sunset. If you have trouble sleeping, go camping.
OBA4 TIL Oliver Reed, Proximo from the movie Gladiator, died during a lunch break on from shooting after drinking 3 bottles of Captain Morgans and 8 beers.
MeBpB TIL about Makgeolli, also referred to as takju (meaning ‘cloudy alcohol’), is a Korean fermented rice wine. It is traditionally made with three ingredients: rice, Korean fermentation starter called nuruk and water. Unpasteurized, it contains high concentrations of nutrients, probiotics, and enzymes.
4XmZX TIL of Ann Hodges, the only known and confirmed meteorite victim in human history. The meteorite breaks through their ceiling one afternoon in 1954 while she was sleeping on her couch and left a large bruise in her thigh. The meteorite was eventually donated to Alabama Museum of Natural History.
BgMNb TIL the Moon "wobbles" during its orbit, showing us a little more than half of the moon's surface from Earth. Since its orbit is not perfectly circular, the Moon changes its speed in orbit, and so the ratio between the rate of its Earth orbit compared to its rotation on its own axis varies.