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TIL A man ate nothing but potatoes for 60 days and thrived.

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0dgEA TIL physicist Walter Jaeger was trying to invent a sensor to detect poison gas. He expected the gas to alter the sensor's electric current but it did not. Frustrated, he lit a cigarette and was surprised to see smoke altered the current. This discovery led to the creation of the modern smoke alarm.
mZWY TIL the blobfish doesn’t look like that in the deep sea (i.e. when it’s alive), it just looks like a normal fish
O09g TIL Natalie Portman in an interview for Black Swan said ‘How do you get guys to a ballet movie? How do you get girls to a thriller?’ And the answer is a lesbian scene. Everyone wants to see that.”
BJrx TIL of a straight Christian man who spent a year of his life as a gay man, including coming out to his family, getting a job as a barista at a gay café and enlisting a friend to act as his boyfriend. The experience radically changed his view of religion and he now views homosexuality as acceptable.
6EL0Y TIL about Bobby, Eddy and David; three identical twins separated at birth but reunited at 19 years of age. However, their separation and reunion may have not been pure coincidence, but infact a work of unethical psychiatric research.