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TIL astronauts do not consume sodas or carbonated drinks in space because the lack of gravity to separate the liquid and gas in the stomach leads to a kind of vomiting called “wet burping”

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0dP71 TIL The Olympics don't actually give any official ranking by country, merely a gold medal "ordering"
6EgpX TIL there are almost 2x more kangaroos in Australia than humans.
m156Y TIL that Stephen King allows filmmakers to license one of his non-contract stories for $1! It's referred as "dollar-babies" .
OGbEY TIL that grapefruit juice can interact in unpredictable ways with many drugs. This can occur even when eaten few days before taking the drugs due to the irreversal blocking of critical enzymes needed to metabolize the drug. Other fruits like citrus, apple and pomegranate have similar issues.
WNK9 [TIL] When under stress, E. coli bacteria switch to more error-prone DNA management in order to increase the chance of receiving a mutation adaptive to the stress