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TIL dead skin cells are a main ingredient in household dust

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b9rKQ TIL that the word palindrome spelled backwards is emordnilap and an emordnilap is actually a word that, when spelled backwards, makes a new word (ex: desserts & stressed). So basically, "emordnilap palindrome" is an emordnilap palindrome.
dQBZ TIL the Top Gun producers originally slated Toto to perform “Danger Zone”, but they couldn’t due to legal conflicts. Bryan Adams refused because he felt the movie glorified war. REO Speedwagon wouldn’t unless they could write other songs for the soundtrack. Finally they settled on Kenny Loggins.
PYw1E TIL that in order to hand draw all of the bubbles in The Little Mermaid, the manpower was outsourced to a China based firm, and the finished artwork of the bubbles was kept in a vault blocks away from the demonstration at Tiananmen Square in 1989. This almost delayed the production of the movie.
W7j1Y TIL the duodenum acts as a degustator, food taster or sommelier, it receives a sample of the digested food in the form of chyme, for test, it analyses macro/micro nutrients, and gives signals for a specialised concoction of bile acids to be released. Once it give the green light, digestion proceeds.
loVkN TIL that urine doesn't come directly from your digestive tract, but is produced by filtering your blood... Feels like I should have known that.