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TIL that Kosovo's national anthem has no words
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TIL in 1965 when Gatorade was invented at the University of Florida, the football coach wouldn't let researchers experiment on the varsity team and only allowed testing on freshman (who couldn't play varsity by NCAA rule). And those players described it as tasting like urine or toilet bowl cleaner.
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TIL that 15 minutes of shivering from cold temperatures can be the metabolic equivalent of 1 hour of exercise.
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TIL Britain's first reality TV star was an old woman who repeatedly tried to get a driving license after surviving womb cancer, and eventually got it after seven tries in the series finale
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TIL that when you eat a pineapple, it eats you back. Pineapples are the only known carriers of Bromelain, an enzyme that breaks down protein. Since your body is made up of proteins, the pineapples you is trying to digest you. That’s why your tongue gets so sore from eating too much of it.
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TIL that possums don’t “play dead”, they actually pass out due to fear of predators. They go into shock and faint when confronted, involuntarily. They are in a catatonic state until they become conscious again.