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TIL some people are allergic to water.

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NKoM TIL that in the 17th century the Finnish people used a measure called Poronkusema: the distance a reindeer can walk before needing to urinate.
WKj9 TIL in an effort to one-up the Soviets during the late 1950s, the United States planned to hit the moon with a nuclear warhead-tipped ICBM. In the Air Force’s infinite wisdom, however, the plan was scrapped because they felt the public would respond unfavorably to nuking the moon.
XExmr TIL that all-time great director Andrei Tarkovsky dismissed colour film as a gimmick, saying that in everyday life one does not consciously notice colours most of the time, and that films in colour are like moving paintings or photographs, which are too beautiful to be a realistic depiction of life
yQgdp TIL Marie Skłodowska-Curie is not only the first woman to win the Nobel Prize but also the first person to win it twice in two different fieldss
47DX TIL France owns a small island off the coast of Newfoundland that is entirely comprised of rock (St. Pierre). The streets are carved into the rock, and instead of cemeteries, inhabitants carved tombs into the island which are there to this day.