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TIL that Gatorade is similar in composition to a medical rehydration solution.

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40Aw TIL: In Wyoming it is a misdemeanor to disclose the final sale price of real property (house, farm, etc). There is an effort to change this but it is being resisted by state politicians, with one stating that it “would show what a dummy I was when I bought my house”
VPe0 TIL that wealthy Chinese hire body doubles to get prosecuted for their crimes; this process is called Ding zui
5Vog9 TIL that in 1990, on flight BA 5390, a poorly installed windshield blew off, partially sucking the captain out of the plane. The crew managed to hold onto him until they landed, and amazingly, he survived.
rRxmd TIL,"the Stopped Clock Illusion". Rapidly move your eyes away from a clock and back to it, and you will notice the second hand taking more time to move than expected. The brain filters the blurry images you see in-between while moving your eyes and replaces it with the image of first thing you see.
LQA1m TIL the inventor of the DISC personality assessment was also the creator of Wonder Woman.