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TIL cats kidneys are so efficient, they can drink seawater all day every day, no problem.

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VEPk TIL that the Griechenbeisl restaurant in Vienna, Austria has been open since 1447 and the most famous guests have been Mozart, Beethoven, and Mark Twain.
GAo85 TIL of Mallows Bay, where over 200 wooden ships were abandoned and burned at the end of WWI. Now the shipwrecks are a thriving ecosystem and the site is a National Marine Sanctuary.
YpaYd TIL that the 1% rule is a rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an internet community, stating that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.
oR8B8 TIL in AD 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne, King of the Franks, as the first Holy Roman Emperor, starting a new line of Roman emperors over 300 years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. This was a surprise to the Eastern Roman Empire, which was still around at that time.
ZppbB TIL when an electrocuted human gets launched across a room, it is not from the current itself, but rather our muscles contracting all at once from the current.