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Today I Learned About Costa Rica‘s Cave Of Death

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jAYM TIL that high-fiber diets work to lower your cholesterol in a roundabout way: by interfering with bile absorption in the intestines. Because the bile can’t get absorbed as well, the bile gets flushed out with your poop, and so the body makes more bile salts, using cholesterol as fuel.
EPDd TIL a mathemetician worked out a formula for perfect parallel parking
npJb TIL a dutch man named Jan de Doot, in 1651, removed his own bladder stone with a kitchen knife. He pulled it out through an incision he made in his taint/gooch/groad/perineum. It was the size of an egg and weight a quarter of a pound. He lived for years after, and had the stone plated in gold.
nWV4Y TIL a roller skating rink DJ named Chris Thrash bought a set of Showbiz Pizza's animatronic band called the Rock-afire Explosion, which had been popular in the 80s, and had new songs programmed and recorded for it and put on YouTube. He then opened up a Showbiz Pizza Zone restaurant with it in 2008.
9YO0D TIL of oncolytic viruses, viruses that are genetically modified to target and kill cancer cells