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TIL low-fat chocolate milk was a better rehydrating athletes than common sports drinks

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R7Aa6 TIL about Dr. Robert Liston, the fastest surgeon in the 19th century. Start to finish it took him 2 and a half minutes to amputate a leg. In his most famous mishap he took off an assistant's fingers as he cut through a leg. That surgery is the only known surgery with a 300% mortality rate.
v1XvL TIL the most expensive mansion ever built in the US ($179,925,000), was demolished 16 years after completion when the owner’s widow sold the property to a developer.
W0WN TIL a town in England completely turned off their traffic lights
nWpJ9 TIL that nearly 10% of the population of Pingelap Atoll is achromatopsic, i.e. unable to distinguish colors but only shades of gray. This is due to a person suffering from achromatopsia who survived a Typhoon in 1775. The disease was then passed on to his descendants, and continues to this day.
4kb1g TIL the "jellyfish effect" (or "space jellyfish") is when a rocket's high-altitude exhaust plume is illuminated by sunlight before dawn or after dusk