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TIL Penguins poop about every 8 minutes

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OoO97 TIL There is not enough evidence to determine whether cough medicines work, even though some people may find them useful
XE7AX TIL that sea lions hunt Ocean Sunfish for sport, tearing their fins off and tossing the body around, before leaving the still living fish to die on the ocean floor.
ANPY4 TIL that Japan has a bridge that looks like a roller coaster. It's called the Eshima Ohashi Bridge.
Wkr7N TIL that popping a pimple in the ominously dubbed "triangle of death" area of your face could lead to brain infection.
vPaML TIL that Évariste Galois, a math prodigy who revolutionized group theory in his teens and got a whole mathematical field named after himself, died of the wounds suffered from a duel over a woman. He was only 20.