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Short answer: Water conducts electricity, just like your finger
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TIL of Ben L. Salomon, a U.S. Army dentist during WW2, assigned as a front line surgeon. When the Japanese started overrunning his hospital, he took action, allowing the safe evacuation of the wounded and killing as many as 98 enemy troops before being killed himself during the Battle of Saipan.
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TIL: Nirvana's producer offered to work on "In Utero" for free if any of the band beat him in a game of pool
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TIL that If you could hold your mother’s hand and she could hold her mother’s hand and so on and so forth, all standing in a straight line, the point where we have a common ancestor with chimpanzees would be only 300 miles away.
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TIL a man stole a Salvador Dali painting in full view of security cameras in broad daylight, mailed it back to the museum a week later, and was only caught because he had shoplifted a juice bottle a year prior, allowing police to match his fingerprints on the package to those on the bottle.
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TIL Beavers’ anal secretions are used to make artificial vanilla flavoring and it can legally be called “natural flavoring.”