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TIL coconut water (when filtered) can be used as an intravenous infusion to hydrate the body.

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kJ5P1 TIL that the we would know if there were Megalodon because whales would have bite marks.
pwke TIL that round goldfish bowls are banned in Monza (Italy), because ‘a fish kept in a bowl has a distorted view of reality’.
54j8 TIL In 2013 a group of Neo Nazis tried to create a compound near a small town in North Dakota. Several local Native American grandmothers raided one of the Neo Nazi rallies and stole their Nazi flag, then burned it.
yBdM TIL in 1917, WWI U.S. troops in Paris stopped at the grave (composed of soil from the U.S.) of French Revolutionary War Hero, Marquis de Lafayette, and proclaimed “Lafayette, we are here!”
R7Zva TIl of anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who after researching international black market organ trade, made the "unusual" decision" to share her findings with law enforcement including the FBI, which later resulted in several arrests.