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TIL in 2013 wreckage of a German submarine was dicovered near Indonesia, including human bones and plates with Nazi insignia

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7rwxX TIL in the UK it's musician union rules that for every actor or model playing an instrument in a music video, the production still has to pay an actual musician. In the iconic "Addicted to Love" video not only they paid the 5 'fembot' models but also 5 musicians behind camera miming the models.
690lJ TIL SSRIs, benzodiazepines, and antihistamines can make you heat intolerant, and more susceptible to heat stroke
e0GWb TIL that shrapnel is named after its inventor - General Henry Shrapnel
XjlD TIL If kidney cells didn’t have aquaporins, which allow cells to reclaim water from urine, humans would have to excrete about 180 L of urine per day.
wLEwY TIL that Willmer “Little Axe” Broadnax, a Gospel quartet tenor popular in the 1930s & 40s, was discovered upon his death in 1992 to be a transgender man—something only he and his brother had known.