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TIL that Officials in Aliso Viejo tried to ban Dihydrogen Monoxide before finding out it was just water.

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XEanP TIL While filming the 2000 hit movie, Castaway, Tom Hanks received a cut and got a staph infection that nearly killed the Academy Award winning actor. The cut gave him blood poisoning, Hanks was in the hospital for 3 days and production of the movie was shut down for 3 weeks.
WLvA TIL that there was a ‘golden tree’ in British Columbia, that was illegally cut down. The man who did it disappeared before he made it to trial.
dVnd TIL Your heart pumps 2000 gallons of blood a day. And all of the blood in your body once every minute.
gbED TIL that every U.S. president with a beard has been a Republican
a9QM TIL Sadhus, Indian holy men, renunciate this world to the point that they attend their own funeral and even the Indian government recognizes them as legally dead.