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TIL There is no significant evidence to support drinking 8 glasses of water a day

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LgAP TIL the English language has a mark resembling an umlaut (called a diaeresis) used to show 2 vowels are also 2 syllables, as in coöperation. The mark is mostly defunct, but still used by The New Yorker magazine.
l7G7N TIL Saddam Hussein's son Uday murdered his bodyguard at a party in front of horrified guests
loOEA TIL of "Dreadnoughtus", one of the largest dinosaurs that ever existed. The fossil skeleton of the individual was 85ft/26m, but was not even a full grown adult and expected to grown even larger!
wowG8 TIL that the first million-selling record in the United States was "Wreck of the Old 97" recorded by Vernon Dalhart in 1924.
6969m TIL that in ancient Babylon, doctors who failed to cure a patient or caused death could have their hands cut off as punishment