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TIL That the Oldest Archived Arpanet message is dated from 11 November 1980 and used Bang path email addresses.

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ojXY TIL When we lose fat from our bodies, 84% of that fat is exhaled as carbon dioxide through the lungs. The remaining 16% becomes water, which may be excreted in urine, feces, sweat, breath, tears and other bodily fluids.
gEAb TIL that the skull recovered by the Soviets that was believed to have been Adolf Hitler’s was tested in 2009 and was confirmed to be of a woman in her 30s
Me4jB TIL there once existed the Silver Republican Party, a US political party that split from the Republican Party in the 1890s over the issues of bimetallism and free silver. It disbanded in the early 1990s and most of its members joined the GOP, but some went to the Democrats.
p8OPb TIL On August 23, 2017 Rich Hill pitched nine no-hit innings, only to lose the game on a walk-off home run by Josh Harrison in the 10th inning. The perfect game was broken up by a ninth-inning error, for the first time in MLB history. Only 303 no-hitters have been thrown in MLB history since 1876.
KY6Ew TIL about Snatitation, a genetically-transmitted condition in which people sneeze after eating a meal and becoming full