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TIL that “liquid breathing” is possible with a liquid called Perfluorocarbon

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wLe1Y TIL that Bermuda had no indigenous population at the time of its discovery, and there is no evidence of any people having lived there before the British settled in 1609, effectively making the British the first people to ever establish a human population on the island
epbYJ TIL that Cliff Richard's record label EMI declined to release "The Millennium Prayer" in 1999, leading to him approaching an independent label instead. It became his 14th UK #1 single.
VMQNB TIL that a person with a one-hour commute has to earn 40 per cent more money to be as satisfied with life as someone who walks to the office.
7rAB7 TIL that coughing while cleaning inside your ears is not something that everyone else experiences and is actually an uncommon reaction called Arnold’s Nerve Reflex
9wQBr TIL that the first human death by a Southern Cassowary was in Australia in 1926, when the bird defeated two brothers who were trying to hunt it. The older brother was killed via his jugular vein being cut, and the younger brother was scared off after being knocked over.