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TIL About the Sovereign Military order of Malta, a internationally recognized sovereign country with 3 citizens which holds no territory, despite this it has two de jure capitals, a palace in Malta and one in Rome

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woXW7 TIL that James Lovelock, an English scientist, performed experiments regarding the cryopreservation of small rodents. His work found that hamsters could successfully be revived with no adverse effects after having 60% of the fluids in their brain frozen. The hamsters were thawed using microwaves.
7rVrp TIL Alpaca, llama, and camel "Spit" isn't always just saliva. When very upset, the spit comes from their first stomach, and is green and has a powerful stench.
e0E4g TIL that grammar schools got their name because they originally existed to teach Latin language and grammar to prepare for a university education.
Zp7K4 TIL that Cluster headaches - a disorder with no known cause that affects roughly 0.05% of people per year and causes headaches regarded as the most severe pain known to medicine - received less than $2 million in research funding from the US National Institutes of Health between 1998-2013.
Me9Em TIL that Uranus smells like farts because its atmosphere consists largely of hydorgen sulfide.