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TIL 95% of Serotonin in the human body is located in the gut

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91EM TIL that the first functional sewing machine was invented in France in 1830 by Barthelemy Thimonnier, a tailor. The inventor was nearly killed by a group of angry French tailors. They burnt down his garment factory because they feared the invention would render them unemployed.
xVEx0 TIL: One evening, while rushing for dinner after a long day at the lab, Constantin Fahlberg, a chemist at Johns Hopkins, forgot to wash his hands that had traces of benzoic sulfimide. This compound made his dinner taste sweet, and that’s how he discovered the artificial sweetener Saccharin.
jNG9j TIL that a 10-hour film called Paint Drying was made by a disgruntled filmmaker in order to force Britain's film censorship board to watch and classify paint drying.
MyRB TIL in the 80s, the first trawling fishermen caught orange roughy fish - the subsequent boom without restrictions has pushed them to the brink of extinction because we didn’t realise they’re each hundred years old
8eAaG TIL NBC offered a role to James Gandolfini to replace Michael Scott on "The Office", but HBO paid him $3 million to not take the role