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TIL NASA conducted a bed-rest study that paid participants $17,000 to stay in bed for 90 days.

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QPKM TIL William Shatner once sold his kidney stone for $25,000 and donated the money to Hurricane Katrina Victims
WEvX TIL That we could soon see algae lamps on streets powered by themselves and consuming up to 200x more CO2 than trees.
wo7RW TIL of Waddell's Signs, physical examination findings used by doctors to detect psychogenic causes of low back pain. Dr. Waddell originally developed these signs to identify patients who might have poor surgical outcomes from lower back surgery.
wkxM TIL in 2008 a California nuclear plant was taken offline due to “a rapid influx of jellyfish”
XOk8 TIL that Mr. Rogers weighed himself in every day at 143 pounds for the last 30 years of his life. He found beauty in the number because there is 1 letter in the word “I,” 4 letters in the word “love,” and 3 letters in the word “you.” “I love you.”