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TIL when the liver fails to produce bile your poop doesn’t get the regular brown pigments so it becomes white

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wXQJ TIL that Christopher Hitchens described the experience of viewing Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Inglorious Basterds’ as similar to “sitting in the dark having a great pot of warm piss emptied very slowly over your head.”
LkENp TIL bees can affect the electric charge of a flower, which tells other bees that the flower is currently out of nectar. The hairs on their body can sense the negative electric charge and lets them know they shouldn't waste their time stopping by.
9wApM TIL that the US, Turkey, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Argentina, and the UK are all within 10 percentage points when it comes to obesity rates
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