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TIL that men should be drinking more than 15 cups of water each day, and women should be drinking more than 11 cups each day.

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16r94 TIL That Supermassive Black Holes also have a habitable zone where planets can form
rRLye TIL of the Tibetan blackbird, living in the Himalayas. As a type of bird called a thrush its genus classification is "Turdus" (Latin for "thrush"). And since the Tibetan blackbird is larger than the common blackbird, it has been given the species name "Turdus Maximus."
LkwQp TIL that one of the main reasons you aren't supposed to eat after the dentist is because the lack of pain from numbness can cause you to bite parts of your mouth off, like lips or tongue.
4aMJ TIL Mark Twain was born and died in the same years that Halley’s Comet flew by the Earth. Twain said, “I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.” He died of a heart attack day after the Comet’s closest approach in 1910.
KYNBR TIL animals are beheaded as part of a postmortem rabies tests.