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TIL humans make more than 9000 gallons of pee in their life time

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4k9pJ TIL Aristotle wrote the heart has only three chambers, and that tiny organisms can be generated spontaneously out of inanimate matter. It is now known that the left atrium is very difficult to observe and took Louis Pasteur to prove that growth doesn't happen in a container without micro-organisms
KOQ79 TIL when a persistent Washington DC bookstore clerk exposed Stephen King as the true author of books written under the name Richard Bachman, King's publishers sent out a press release announcing Bachman's death from "cancer of the pseudonym."
0dxDj TIL of pirate captain Edward Low (1690-1724). Active for only 3 years, he's widely regarded as one of the most vicious pirates of all time. In one incident, he cut off the lips of a captured ship's captain, broiled them, and fed them to the man before killing him and his crew
YpvYv Til The Secret Service tried to paint the White House Camoflage
mx0O TIL an Indian soldier, after being shot in the groin and shoulder, finished climbing an ice cliff, took out a bunker with a grenade, then another 4 enemies with his bare hands.