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TIL that the body has no normal internal temperature and that 98.6 Fahrenheit is a flawed number based on an antiquated study

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R5kEw TIL that Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Tito, Sigmund Freud and Joseph Stalin were all living in the same section of Vienna during the year 1913
6EgMW TIL there is an Asian Elephant sanctuary in Thailand for elephants that have been subject to cruelty by bad owners. Some are driven to exhaustion when used for logging, others are tortured to subdue them to become tame for tourist rides.
VBR78 TIL a professional soccer player for the Gabon national team, Guelor Kanga, was called to a disciplinary committee to explain how he was born in 1990, yet his mother had passed away in 1986.
Jpj8 TIL Guinness could really be good for you: A pint of Guinness may work as well as a low dose aspirin to prevent heart clots that raise the risk of heart attacks.
N70OM TIL Auguste Deter, the first woman diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, could not recite her own name. She instead would just repeat "I have lost myself" ("Ich hab mich verloren")