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TIL that needing to drink 8 glasses of water a day, and that coffee dehydrates you are both disproven myths.

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VBB80 TIL that despite being known as a singer more than a guitarist, The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas actually wrote all the guitar parts for the band's first two albums.
VVW8 TIL That in the original version of The Hobbit, Gollum surrenders the Ring to Bilbo as a reward for winning a Riddle Game. However, as Tolkien was conceiving the nature of the Ring, he realized that the Ring’s grip on Gollum would never permit him to give it up willingly.
Ydax TIL: 1 Billion seconds ago was 1979 but 1 Trillion seconds ago was 29,700 BC
NYXJ TIL the X Prize Foundation cancelled their $10 million genetic sequencing X Prize when the technology in the industry was beginning to approach the cost and accuracy thresholds for awarding the prize.
5Y78r TIL about the “Oh-My-God” particle, which, on the night of October 15, 1991, streaked across the Utah sky traveling at 99.99999999999999999999951% the speed of light with 320 exa-electron volts (EeV) of energy