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TIL that when cable was introduced it was advertised as having no commercials due to being a paying service.

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RXKa TIL what happens when we drink sea water: A kidney can’t make urine from a concentration of salts of more than 2%. Seawater is made of 3% salt, so if we drink it the kidneys have to use existing water from our body to dilute the extra salt, which in turn makes us even thirstier.
5lbD TIL That during a concert in San Francisco in 1973, an audience member watching The Who played the drums for the band when Keith Moon passed out mid-show
78Ggx TIL that 152 black cats auditioned to be in a film adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's short story "The Black Cat"
aK9L TIL the movie Troll (1986) features a character named Harry Potter who navigates a world full of witches, wizards, and magic to save his family
awmg9 TIL of Guðlaugur Friðþórsson, who was fishing off the coast of a remote Icelandic island inhabited by puffins when his ship capsized. He survived by swimming six hours in freezing water and walking several miles over volcanic rock. An average person survives in those conditions for about 75 minutes.