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TIL coconut water (the liquid inside a young coconut) has been used as a substitute for human blood plasma in emergency situations. It’s far from ideal but it can work.

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6n4Q TIL that in 1970 the US Postal Service decided on a strike after a Congressional decision to raise the wages of postal workers by only 4%, at the same time as Congress raised its own pay by 41%
69mK7 TIL that Dimitrios Loundras, a Greek gymnast, holds the distinction of being the youngest ever athlete and medalist in Olympics history, having been 10 years and 218 days old when he participated in the 1896 Olympic Games in Athens.
x67nb TIL, Tribune, Kansas, population 772, is the fifth largest city by area in the US, and largest in the continental US. Tribune and Greeley county operate as one government entity.
9ExG TIL Samsung is also a full time weapons manufacturer
9YlYB TIL that some poison dart frogs secrete a painkiller called epibatidine. Epibatidine is 200x more potent than morphine and is nonaddictive, but has a therapeutic dose that is dangerously close to its lethal dose