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TIL about Tarrare, an 18th-century Frenchman who could eat 15 people's worth of food, live animals, and even swallowed documents for military espionage.

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Brrxr TIL About Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation which is a technology allow the use of small magnets to stimulate brain centers treating various mental ailments.
4bJ6 TIL Ian Fleming, writer of James Bond, last words were “I am sorry to trouble you chaps. I don’t know how you get along so fast with the traffic on the roads these days.” uttered to the Ambulance drivers
GayG TIL there are more trees in the US today, than 100 years ago
jNQrn TIL birds poop white because they don't urinate. The uric acid turns poop white and makes it hard to get off windshields because it doesn't dissolve easily with water.
XE0P6 TIL of Richard Turner, a true American badass. One of the best card magicians in the world, he also earned a karate black belt in the toughest karate school in the country, hunted sharks, climbed cliffs without securing and became a trapeze artist. Oh, and he lost his eyesight at the age of 9.