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TIL that it's possible to drink too much water.

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Lk47r TIL that the American public found out about the existence of the atomic bomb only sixteen hours after the bombing of Hiroshima.
ZnDR TIL the Sword in the Stone story was inspired by a real sword stuck in a stone. It was placed there miraculously by the first officially canonized saint in the Catholic Church in the 12th c. It’s still in the stone in a church in Italy.
y7vw TIL that actor Zachary Quinto who plays Spock in the new Star Trek went on a spiritual retreat to Peru to take ayahuasca with a shaman. He considers ayahuasca a medicine and not a drug.
gro5A TIL Mel Blanc, while having a career almost entirely with Warner Brothers, had two Disney voice rolls: A few hiccups for the mute character Gideon the Cat in Pinocchio (1940), as well as voicing his Looney Tunes characters in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
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