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TIL that humans can breath liquid. 1989 human trials in Philadelphia administered total liquid ventilation to near-death infants, who improved remarkably and showed that their lungs could comply to the liquid.

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K77B TIL the Maunder minimum was a period of record-low sunspot activity that lasted from 1645 to 1715. This period coincides with the Little Ice Age and suggested to scientists that solar activity plays a major role in Earth’s climate.
eb1b TIL in November 2008 at the height of hyperinflation, 1 US dollar was equal to 2,621,984,228,675,650,147,435,579,309,984,228 Zimbabwe dollars
ZplrQ TIL the “Tylenol murders” were the driving force behind tamper-resistant packaging for over-the-counter meds
9W7G TIL a hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface and breathes without waking; does this every ~4 minutes
PZQg TIL of Rabbit Starvation, a rare form of malnutrition that occurs when exclusively eating extremely lean meats, like rabbit. Since rabbit meat is so lean, if someone eats only rabbit they will starve to death.