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TIL: That small plastic spheres are floated on top of reservoirs to help stop evaporation during droughts.

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QNLAk TIL about Robert Brecheen, a convicted murderer who attempted suicide by overdose just prior to his execution in 1995, but he was found, revived and treated at a local hospital until he was better, then returned to prison and executed.
5V7O8 TIL - Belgium went 589 days without a government
0wlpy TIL that American surgeon William Beaumont, the "Father of Gastric Physiology", researched human digestion by putting pieces of food on a string and poking them through an old gunshot wound in his handyman's stomach. He pulled it out on regular intervals to check on how well it had been digested.
nE7G TIL That there is a group that believes that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a large hoax; and nobody was hurt or killed.
69b5Y TIL that human body temperature has declined in the past century.