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TIL the appendix is used as a safe-house for beneficial bacteria for when you have diarrhea

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b6PJ9 TIL that David Lynch's homages to "The Wizard of Oz" in his films (like "Wild at Heart") were ways to echo his obsession: “There is not a day that goes by that I don’t think about ‘The Wizard of Oz,'" he said in 2001 at a New York Film Festival Q&A.
kJAmg TIL in 1984 three hippos died in a West German zoo after an elephant opened a valve and sent hot water into their pool, generating steam that suffocated them.
M6yW TIL Baseball has a rule which says players cannot fraternize with the other team while in uniform.
d8WeE TIL Computers can only generate 'true random' numbers by measuring unpredictable real-world physical phenomenon such as radioactive-decay or noise, whilst many generate 'psuedo-random' numbers which are not truly random and are produced using mathematical algorithms based on an initial value.
x6LO7 TIL of the 78 players who have won a Heisman Trophy, 15 never played one game in the NFL, including the first Heisman Trophy winner, Jay Berwanger and most recently 2003 Heisman winner, Jason White of Oklahoma.