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TIL Ketone bodies, unlike fats, can pass through the blood-brain barrier so help you survive 40+ days of starvation by providing energy for the brain

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1alj4 TIL about the heroism of Teddy Sheean, of the Australian navy. During WW2, his ship was torpedoed, and Japanese planes shot at survivors in the sea. Sheean strapped himself to an antiaircraft gun on the sinking ship and fired at the planes, downing at least one. He was still firing as he drowned.
QNEpa TIL Christopher Walken’s SNL character, “The Continental” is a parody of a real program of the same name starring Italian actor Renzo Cesana, and aired on CBS in 1952
N1KN TIL that in Texas, sunscreen products are tax exempt.
loJn7 TIL That before Norse settlers came to Iceland the Island was inhabited by Irish Christian Monks living in several scattered monasteries
Wwmo TIL the old testament law “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” was not intended to justify retaliation. It was intended to prevent blood feuds and other excessive forms of retribution.