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TIL that once a year the Jindo Sea parts, revealing a pathway between two islands in South Korea

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9Y71m TIL eating Oreos may cause your poop to turn black. Due mostly to the artificial food coloring and chemicals in packaged cookies.
Mekka TIL modern digital communications systems insert a fake 'hiss' into silences so the listener knows the call hasn't dropped or the transmission stopped.
W7BeL TIL a WWII German fighter aircraft, the BF-109, had a unique weapon design - cannon which was installed in the engine and fired through the propeller hub
p84jA TIL: Every branch of the US military has a "Hollywood Liason Office" to coordinate cooperation with film and TV shows to "to accurately depict military stories and make sure sensitive information isn’t disclosed."
ANwwx TIL There were experiments conducted in the 1950s where researchers gave their subjects manual control over the pleasure centers of their brains through the click of a button, wired to surgically implanted electrodes.