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TIL The health benefits of drinking hot water.

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gMybX TIL: Port Royal, Jamaica, a pirate safe haven in the Caribbean slid into the ocean largely intact during a massive earthquake. Nautical archeologists can now explore entire sections of old buildings underwater.
Lk1j9 TIL during prohibition, merchants would sell "bricks" of grape concentrate with a label that warned consumers not to mix the concentrate with yeast, water, and sugar and age the mixture for seven days, because "an illegal alcoholic beverage will result".
ep0VJ TIL about Foal Slippers, a tissue like covering around the hooves of baby horses to protect the mother during pregnancy and birth. They are shed within hours after the foal being born.
v1Anj TIL Sharks have been on earth for longer than trees have.
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