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TIL of Butterball's turkey cooking hotline. Every year they receive 10,000+ (panicked?) calls around Thanksgiving from people looking for tips on how to cook their turkey

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9Ee6 TIL of Slavisa Pajkic, a man who was born with no sweat glands. He and his brother are able to withstand thousands of volts of electricity running through their bodies(or through their skin). Scientists are unable to explain the phenomenon
xVMvw TIL Cincinnati Built a Subway System a Century Ago but It Wasn't Used
P1wJ TIL The New York Times wrote an article about each individual September 11th victim.
W7EkX TIL of a very rare condition called Anton syndrome, in which a person becomes blind however they are unaware of it and will deny it, as their brain generates (false) visual images so they continue to believe that they can see.
4kBD5 TIL that swinging our arms when walking makes us spend less energy and walk faster than if we tried to hold them still.