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TIL for nonalcoholic dependent people, most alcohol consumed is metabolized in the liver mainly through ADH (alcohol dehydrogenase). Chronic alcohol consumers develop a secondary pathway (MEOS).

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xjkw TIL:A captive shark, vomited up another, different shark, which had a human arm in it’s belly, and the arm was used to solve a murder.
0OaN TIL that in 2014, three mycologists (fungus experts) from Kew Gardens in England, analysed the DNA of a supermarket packet of dried porcini mushrooms and found three species unknown to science.
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