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TIL that the human body can survive up to 60 days without food provided it gets properly hydrated

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R7gWj TIL in 1971 John List murdered his family to save their souls and arranged their bodies on sleeping bags. He then cleaned up, cut himself out of the family’s photos, turned on a religious radio station, and fled. Only after the lights in the house had burned out one by one did neighbors call police.
Ypm4x TIL that Frank Goldsmith, Jr., a Titanic survivor who later lived near Navin Field (Tiger Stadium) in Detroit, never took his children to baseball games because the roar of the crowd reminded him of the screams of people dying in the freezing water.
xVbVw TIL adding a small amount of seaweed to a cow's diet, can decrease the amount of methane they produce by nearly 60%
Lke09 TIL that had a bull not broken loose from a Norse expedition's settlement in North America around 1000 AD, most of what would become America would be speaking Icelandic by now.
5YpD9 TIL whales spouting water out of blowholes is a common error propagated in children's books and movies (the whale would be drowning if it did so). A 2016 scientific survey of children's books featuring whales and cetaceans revealed 74/116 had factual errors, including almost half of the non-fiction.