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TIL the recommendation of drinking 8 glasses of water has no medical reasoning. The current advice is listening to your body and drinking when thirsty, unless you're outside on a hot day.

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N7XK6 TIL there used to be a Latin warning describing the Strait of Gibraltar: "NON PLUS ULTRA", or "Nothing further beyond". After Spain reaped huge rewards proving that this wasn't quite true, they made their national motto "PLUS ULTRA", or "Further beyond".
PJXZ TIL-A tourist controlled drone crashed into one of Yellowstone’s most delicate hot springs. Drones are now banned from all US National Parks.
QJRRX TIL that Tesla vehicles have a "biodefense" mode that is helping people during wildfires.
wME8 TIL in 2005 a glitch in World of Warcraft allowed a plague to spread in the game leading non-infected players to abandon cities while those infected were forced into quarantines. It was later studied by epidemiologists to see how real life people would react to a pandemic.
ANbyo TIL: Snakes don’t “see” temperature – they use specialized heat-sensing pits on their faces (like in pit vipers) to detect infrared radiation and find warm-blooded prey. This allows them to "sense" heat rather than actually see it.