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TIL that it’s biologically possible to Smell Parkinson’s disease

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QJ0Zd TIL that Mitch Mitchell was chosen over Ansley Dunbar to be the drummer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience by a coin toss. He would later not be chosen as the drummer for Paul McCartney and Wings when he lost a coin toss.
eRwn TIL that coconut water is Isotonic and Sterile (provided that the husk is intact), for this reason, in undeveloped countries it has been injected directly into the blood stream as a substitute for an IV bag.
groj7 TIL That Roland Freisler, the German judge who presided over the trials of many of the July 20 plotters, died in the very courtroom the trials were conducted during an Allied bombing raid just a few months before the end of WWII.
16OwO TIL a Cary, NC mother called for safer labels on packaging after her son was accidentally poisoned because he ate what he thought were Pop Rocks but instead were Lucky’s Mystical Dragon Flames, which is a chemical used to change the color of fire.
P1leE TIL - In the Houghton Library at the great learning institute of Harvard, you will find a book called Des destinées de l’âme (Destinies of the Soul in English) that is bound in human skin.