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TIL Clear Urine Means You're Overly Hydrated -- I always thought that clear urine was a good thing, but apparently not!

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W7jV8 TIL: There is an actual non joke study which studies the influence of CUMS in male rats. CUMS stood for Chronic Unpredictable Mild Stress. The CUMS rats were deprived of water, food, and had their cage tilted with white noise and 2 stranger rats with them to study how it effects their libido.
pPDA TIL that two students were arrested in 1972 for a plan to poison Chicago’s water supply with typhoid, anthrax, and various other pathogens. Released on bond, they hijacked a plane and forced it to go to Cuba; one died in prison and the other eventually made it home, getting five years of probation.
9007 TIL Gunpowder was invented in China while taoists attempted to create a potion of immortality.
jNJka TIL about 20% of all classified mammal species can fly, because there’s over 1,200 species of bats.
BOme TIL that during the fundraiser scene for The Dark Knight, Michael Caine was supposed to have some dialogue when the Joker first shows up. However, as it was his first time seeing Heath Ledger in his full Joker costume, he was so terrified that he forgot every single one of his lines.