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TIL contrary to the popular belief that drinking lots of water is good for you, drinking TOO much water can be bad for you and cause hyponatremia. Hyponatremia happens when your sodium level is too low in your bloodstream.

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oBQMY TIL about Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh American man who owned a Chevron gas station in Mesa, Arizona. On September 15th, 2001 he was killed by a Boeing employee as an act of "retaliation" for the WTC attacks. He is listed in the Arizona state memorial as a victim of 9/11
7ZXL TIL Cats cannot taste anything sweet. Instead, they can taste ATP, the biomolecule that supplies energy within living cells (meat).
VMbDD TIL In 2016 Cards Against Humanity raises $100,000 to dig 'tremendous hole'
rNBY1 TIL: (‴) are the symbol for the line unit; similarily how (′) meats feet and (″) means inch.
kObaE TIL that online recipe blogs come with seven different short stories and 30 personal anecdotes in order to create copyright protections for the recipe being blogged about. Recipes get copyright protections while ingredients lists don’t. Someone else can claim your writing if it’s not unique enough.