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TIL The Buddha recommended eating rice porridge, saying "There are these five benefits in rice porridge. What five? It stills hunger, dispels thirst, settles wind, cleans out the bladder, and promotes the digestion of the remnants of undigested food. These are the five benefits of rice porridge."

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xV78o TIL that the Momo Challenge, in which it was reported in 2018 and 2019 that children were being enticed to perform dangerous tasks including suicide, was a hoax and media reports about deaths linked to the challenge were "far fetched and devoid of any evidence".
e49k TIL when Einstein died in 1955, the physician who conducted his autopsy at Princeton stole his brain and took it home to perform “research”, for which he was ultimately fired after refusing to return the brain. Decades later, he drove to California to return the brain to Einstein’s granddaughter.
VMl5k TIL the cryptocurrency Dogecoin community raised $129,687 for the Jamaican national bobsleigh team, who qualified for the 2014 Winter Olympics but lacked funding -- far surpassing the $40,000 necessary.
Rjy8 TIL that Scientology has its own prison called “The Hole” where Scientology executives are sent for months or even years of confinement, manual labor and humiliation.
BgdNk TIL of the Canadian commander Charles De Salaberry who defeated the American invasion of Montreal. Salaberry deployed marching buglers to play in all different directions, meaning his American opponents didn’t know how many men he had or what direction they were coming from.