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TIL People with Alzheimer's can get severly dehydrated, as they may forget it is necessary to drink or even how to do it. To help his grandmother, an inventor came up with colorful balls containing 90% water, which grandma can pound 7 in 10 minutes.

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eb4b TIL that Magda Goebbels, wife of the Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, adored Hitler so much that named her six children after him. Right before Germany’s defeat in WWII, she killed them all and commited suicide.
d8vPB TIL the oldest mosque in Australia was built in the 1860s, set up by Afghan camel drivers in the middle of the South Australian desert. This was very early by Western standards - the UK's first mosque was built in 1891, while the US and France didn't have any mosques until the 1920s.
d8yA8 TIL Saint Petersburg, Russia has been renamed several times. In 1914, it was renamed Petrograd to expunge the German words "Sankt" & "Burg". In 1924, it was renamed Leningrad. In 1991, the original name Saint Petersburg returned after a city-wide referendum.
0d1WA TIL according to a 2020 case report, a 32-year-old man presented with a 6 day history of deep anal pain and abdominal pain following an incident where a female partner had assaulted him by inserting a perfume canister into his rectum while he was drunk.
yVgKp TIL: There was an anti-war blocade at the Pentagon that devolved into a riot in 1967. In attendance was a group chanting to levitate the building, and that GSA insisted they keep it to 3' or less to protect the foundation.