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TIL: In WWII, coconut water was temporarily used as IV fluid when saline was in short supply.

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gMLr4 TIL, it takes a photon up to 100,000 years to travel to the surface of the sun but only 8 minutes for it to then reach the earth.
JYL04 TIL that AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson was frequently quoted as having said "Screw the customers, I'm taking care of the shareholders."
8aRJP TIL in 1951 Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz carried out an agrarian reform under which uncultivated portions of large land-holdings were expropriated in return for compensation and redistributed to poverty-stricken agricultural laborers. The US disliked this and the CIA engineered a coup d'etat
7Jxp TIL After a video that went viral in 2012 showing a bus monitor getting bullied by students - a Canadian man set up a fundraiser to collect $5,000 for a vacation for her. In the end, they ended up collecting and giving the women over $700,000. She has since retired.
eWKn TIL that you can see China’s air pollution on satellite images.