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TIL Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, in a clinical study sanctioned by Disney, had a 70% success rate in helping pass kidney stones for simulated kidneys.

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QJmKL TIL that a photon of light can travel the 150 million kilometres from the Sun to the Earth, and in that same time, a gamma ray in the Sun's core will travel only about 13 centimetres. It can take 100,000 years from the core of the Sun to get to the surface — where it bursts out at speed of light.
M7GB0 TIL Rasputin's Autopsy Revealed No Signs of Poisoning, Drowning, or Genital Mutilation... Just Three Fatal Bullet Wounds
VxmD TIL more money was spent buying Central Park’s land than all of Alaska
J17yQ TIL The UK used to have Slam-door trains, passengers had to slam the doors closed when the train was about to depart. Some slam-door trains had doors that could only be opened from the outside, so passengers had to lean out of the window to reach the outside door handle
W7Ob8 TIL that cats love eating (human) earwax. Apparently, the proteins in it smell delicious to them.