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TIL when you hold in a fart you risk can cause diverticula, pouches in the wall of the colon, to form. These pockets can become infected leading to a condition called diverticulitis.

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Z8Rgp TIL that the river Wanganui in New Zealand was the first river in the world to have legal personhood. The river Ganges followed shortly after.
mxdDv TIL that 9 missing episodes of the 1960s Dr Who series were found in a TV station in Nigeria. They’d been left there in the 60s-70s for foreign syndication. It was the largest haul of classic Who episodes ever recovered in the last three decades.
RWm8 TIL at the 1863 World Checkers Championship, every game of the 40-game series ended in a draw. 21 of the 40 games were exactly the same, move by move.
x67XB TIL that during the construction of the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico workers found a human skeleton. It was later identified as the body of a passenger that had been ejected from a passenger aircraft that had experienced decompression during an engine failure.
N7YAN TIL that Taron Egerton sang “I’m Still Standing” by Elton John as the Gorilla in the movie “Sing” prior to starring in the movie “Rocket Man” as Elton John where he sings the same song.