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TIL Rollercoasters can cure kidney stones by "literally rattling the stone loose."

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d8jO7 TIL that the first French territory that seaborne Allied forces captured on D-Day were the Îles Saint-Marcouf islands off the Normandy coast. Although they faced no resistance, the US troops suffered 19 casualties, killed and wounded, from mines that the Germans had left.
W7yO4 TIL Mana Ashida, the young girl playing the younger version of Mako Mori in Pacific Rim (2013) could not pronounce director Guillermo Del Toro’s name, so he gave her special permission to call him Totoro-san
4XRkR TIL that our eyes and ears don’t tell us enough about the outside world, so our brain uses its expectations to ‘hallucinate’ reality.
wLa6P TIL dolphins sleep with one eye open. Because they have to periodically go up for air and also be aware of predators, they are able to rest only half of their brain at a time and stay always somewhat conscious.
40ww TIL 60% of Earth’s lakes are in Canada.