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TIL that water isn't the best liquid for oral rehydration, and actually ranks behind drinks like diet soda and milk.

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oBnEK TIL that shortly before the Attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese government sent its declaration of war to its embassy in America. However, the message was so long and confusingly worded that by the time the embassy had it decoded and translated, the attack had already finished.
VMJ58 TIL that Miami is the only major American city that was founded by a woman. Julia Tuttle, a woman from Cleveland, purchased 640 acres in present-day downtown Miami to start a new chapter in her life after her husband died.
RVQ7 TIL that when Nazis came to a Jewish Nobel Laureate’s home, a fellow chemist hid his (and another laureate’s) gold medals by dissolving them in a beaker that the Nazis ignored, then years later he recovered the gold and had it recast back into the medals.
aVW9 TIL The world’s next tallest tower of all time will be built by the Bin Laden family.
e0v4n TIL The “Nope, Chuck Testa!” commercial was created by Rhett & Link of Good Mythical Morning