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TIL Oasis was once so popular in Britain that a single was released consisting entirely of the Gallagher brothers arguing during an interview, and the single hit #52 on the UK charts.

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69B4l TIL due to over fishing taking out their competitors and and predators, squid populations are growing at an alarming rate
R0K7 TIL: There is something called sleep debt and if you do not reduce the debt you can experience worsened vision, impaired driving, and trouble remembering. Long-term effects include obesity, insulin resistance, and heart disease.
694p7 TIL that Anthropodermic Bibliopegy is the practice of binding books in human skin. As of April 2022 there have been 18 books confirmed to be bound in human skin by the Anthropodermic Book Project.
VMnEQ TIL about the meanings of the famous quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, “your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries”. The hamster likened a mother to a fast breading rodent and elderberry was a common kind of wine, implying the father was a drunk.
4Xo7g TIL 'The Father of Modern Gynecology', James Marion Sims, perfected his surgical techniques by operating without anesthesia on enslaved black women.