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TIL at full sprint a cheetah spends more time flying than in contact with the ground

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VB75G TIL: The oldest grocery store in the Americas is in Quebec City
0dpKA TILearned about the "Powder of sympathy", a form of sympathetic medicine in 17th century Europe whereby a remedy was applied to the weapon that had caused a wound with the aim of healing the injury it had made.
GNe7 TIL C.S.Lewis, Aldous Huxley and J.F.Kennedy all died on the same day, the media coverage of thetwo former being overshadowed by the latter
6EvDJ TIL that the "drink 8 glasses of water a day" is based on a 1945 recommendation that had no medical basis. The current recommendation is "drink when you are thirsty, unless you are outside on a hot day or are elderly- then drink a bit more."
KOmLw TIL in 2016, a brewery allegedly produced a beer using yeast from a woman’s vagina. [NSFW]