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TIL your brain burns 20% of your daily calories, despite only being 2% of your body mass.

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e04GL TIL Nazi Germany ran the first national anti-smoking campaign and in 1939, German scientist Franz Müller presented the first epidemiological study linking tobacco use and cancer.
R76b7 TIL in the anatomy building at Dalian Medical University, where medical student can practice on cadavers, there's a sign with a quote from a donor that reads "I’d rather let students try something 20 times on me than see them make one mistake on a future patient.”
M7MMA TIL in 2007 scientists discovered Sildenafil (Viagra) helps treat jet lag recovery in hamsters.
5Ydgp TIL Brazilian Orange Juice companies now own a majority of Florida's OJ production facilities and over 50% of the juice from Florida-labeled brands sold in stores is actually concentrate from Brazil.
mELM TIL - Jake LaMotta, the real life boxer portrayed in Raging Bull, who’s boxing style was to take punches to the head until his opponent was tired, is still alive and well at age 93.