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TIL in 2012 a young woman’s stomach had to be removed after drinking a shot with liquid nitrogen still in it.

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5K1Q TIL Finding Nemo had the opposite effect that was intended. Despite its negative portrayal of keeping fish in aquariums, the use of clownfish prompted The demand for aquariums to triple. Demand was met by large-scale harvesting of tropical fish from the wild which devastated Clownfish Populations.
09oL TIL in the US, more babies are born on Monday and Tuesday than any other day because doctors don’t like scheduling c-sections and induced labour on the weekend.
6Ej0m TIL there used to be a seventh position in ice hockey called the rover who would contribute to both defense and offense as needed.
kORn5 TIL that as of 2020, 4.5 billion people are connected to and actively use the Internet.
j6d1v TIL Fractional freezing is a method to concentrate alcoholic beverages by freezing and removing the water. The problem is that the method concentrates impurities like excess ethanol which causes intense hangovers and a condition known as "apple palsy".