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TIL that six doctors devised an experiment where they each swallow a Lego head as a means to determine the typical transit time of a commonly swallowed object. They then presented their findings with a 'Found and Retrieved Time' aka 'FART' score. The FART score averaged 1.71 days

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16GEO TIL that the creators of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, named their company Mirage Studios because there was no actual studio other than Laird’s living room.
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