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TIL Pelagic birds can drink seawater: glands beneath their eyes draw out excess sodium and secrete a highly concentrated salt solution through the nose

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QJnBE TIL of Anya Pogharian, a Canadian who at age 17 invented a portable dialysis machine costing $500 to build; (dialysis machines typically cost about $30K). Her machine filters 4 liters of blood in 25 minutes.
BNKb TIL After Christian Slater took the place of River Phoenix in “Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles” he donated his entire paycheck from the movie to all of River’s favorite charities.
EgV8o TIL in 2003 Phil Donahue was fired from MSNBC for being too liberal
R7Qjl TIL that a Russian psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik found in 1927 that waiters remembered orders only as long as the order was in the process of being served. Unfinished work continues to exert an influence, even when we try to move on to other things. This phenomenon was called The Zeigarnik Effect.
x6pkB TIL that the Centralia Mine Fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania has been burning continuously since at least 1962. It stretches across 8 miles (13km) & at depths of up to 300ft (90m). It has made the surrounding land unstable & the residents were relocated