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TIL there is a tree that owns itself in Athens, GA

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X0eXQ TIL that there’s a medical procedure called “Fecal Transplant” that literally consists in collecting feces, also called stool or poop, from a healthy donor and introduce them into a patient’s gastrointestinal tract. The procedure can control an infection called Clostridium difficile.
loRVK TIL During Leslie Nielsen’s funeral in 2010, the “Naked Gun” theme was playing while RCMP officers carried his casket into a hotel near the funeral home.
oRwbK TIL the common consensus of drinking 8 glasses of water a day to remain hydrated was based on a 1945 claim with no medical evidence.
vOoB TIL, that in 2001, two one-thousand-year-old Mississippian burial grounds were excavated in order to build a Wal-Mart Supercenter
aw8ly TIL: The line: "Be afraid. Be very afraid" was spoken by Geena Davis in the 1986 film "The Fly"