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TIL rats cant vomit, at all.

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xvPg TIL the summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone made up of fossilised remains of ocean creatures
kODGd TIL of the book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks. It's about curious medical cases, including one of a patient with visual agnosia who not only did really mistake his wife for his hat, but also couldn't tell the difference between his shoe and his foot.
jNwaQ TIL that adolescents who smoke marijuana as early as 14 do worse by 20 on some cognitive tests and drop out of school at a higher rate than non-smokers. But if they hold off until age 17, they're less at risk, and performed equally well as adolescents who did not use cannabis.
Y7gVB TIL: China has more land reclaimed than the top 2-20 countries combined. Over 13,000 square kilometers (5000+ square miles)
7rYd7 TIL That George R. R. Martin uses a computer with DOS and WordStar (a wordprocessor from the 80s) to write his Games of Thrones serie