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TIL lack of sleep causes frequent urination due to increased sodium in the urine, particularly in men, per the National Library of Medicine article.

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NYQ1 TIL Sean Bean dies 32% of the time per film. Bean is tied with only Bela Lugosi for the most deaths per screen appearance.
nEQd TIL a journalist suffered a massive stroke,woke up 20 days later paralyzed,had one eye stitched closed,lost 27 Kgs over 5 months, wrote a book by blinking his left eyelid for ten months four hrs a day, died suddenly 10 days after the book released to excellent reviews,and later a highly rated movie
d8amQ TIL about a protein called pikachurin, a protein discovered in 2008 that is present in the retina and helps with the transmission of electrical impulses between the eyes and the brain
x6Ml7 TIL that the champion racehorse Secretariat (1970 – 1989), in addition to being an influential sire in the Thoroughbred breed, sired two part-bred sons, First Secretary and Statesman, to test his fertility. These colts went on to become prominent sires in the Appaloosa and American Warmblood breeds.
yVYPe TIL of the play Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play in which survivors in a post apocalyptic world reenact episodes of the Simpsons