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TIL that Mitsutaka Uchikoshi, a Japanese hiker survived 24 days on a mountain without food or water by going into a state of hibernation. Doctors believe this is the first known case of a human going into hibernation

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0d1oR TIL about "terra preta" ("black soil"), a very dark and fertile regenerating soil present in the Amazon Basin.
O186 TIL of Cliff Curtis, a Maori from New Zealand who has played just about every ethnicity Hollywood has thrown his was including an Arab in Three Kings, a Chicano gangster in Training Day, Pablo Escobar in Blow, and the Lord of the Fire Nation in the Last Airbender.
yQQge TIL that after Germany's openly-gay Foreign Minister called the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko "Europe's last dictator", Lukashenko responded that it was "better to be a dictator than gay".
l7p8K TIL the famous study about heartless husbands, which found men were highly likely to divorce their sick wives after serious diagnoses, was subsequently responsibly retracted by authors because of a statistical error. In the corrected model, the difference between divorce rates was minimal.
X0VeQ TIL that , There actually aren’t “57 varieties” of Heinz ketchup, and never were. Company founder H.J. Heinz thought his product should have a number, and he liked 57. Hint: Hit the glass bottle on the “57,” not the bottom, to get the ketchup to flow