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TIL having to drink 8 cups of water a day is a lie

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4r15 TIL John Adams, who would go on to become the second President, defended in court the soldiers who committed the Boston Massacre, earning acquittals for six of the eight.
e0MXk TIL that in 1991 a cosmonaut was stuck in orbit on the MIR Space Station while the USSR collapsed below on earth
PYQwn TIL an alligator can go two years without feeding by burning fat reserves at the base of it's tail.
mx1dE If it’s a particularly contagious virus, it would spread across the planet in a year. “If it starts in New York, it’s going to be in London certainly within a week,” says Ira Longini, a biostatistician at the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle who uses computer models to analyze how viruses globe-trot. “And from there, it will quickly travel to the rest of North America and Europe.” For Longini’s computer forecasts to become reality, though, certain conditions would need to be met.
nRnG TIL of Guevedoces, people who exist only in a small community in the Dominican Republic. They are boys who are born without male sex organs, looking mostly identical to girls until puberty when their male sex organs grow in.