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TIL that coconut water taken from a fresh opened coconut can be injected intravenously into the human blood stream to re hydrate a patient as it mimics human plasma almost exactly.

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oBVgr TIL that tint is a mixture of a color with white, which reduces darkness, shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness, tone is produced either by mixing a color with grey (or by both tinting and shading), and hue is how much red, blue and yellow it has.
ZpvPG TIL that Raven is a chimpanzee. It picked stocks by throwing darts and became the 22nd most successful manager in the US. This chimpanzee created its own index called MonkeyDex, which grew by 213% in 1999, outperforming the performance of over 6000 professional brokers on Wall Street.
0wERR TIL that more than 100 tons of space dust falls to Earth every single day. They are tiny (50 µm to 2 mm) meteoroids that survived entry through the Earth's atmosphere. Some land on our rooftops as well and can be captured using a strong magnet placed in the rain gutter.
x60Gw TIL Ireland holds the world’s highest frequency (~10–11%) of C282Y, a gene variant in hereditary hemochromatosis. Historically, poor diets from poverty, heavy tea, and reliance on potatoes favored iron-boosting. Now, iron-fortified foods can cause overload, leading to harmful excess body iron levels
e0eYg TIL African Elephants are evolving to not have tusks, protecting themselves from poachers but also harming their species