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TIL there is a rare genetic disorder that causes your urine to turn black as soon as it hits the air. There is no known cure.

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Y70od TIL Sparrow Force, a mostly Australian WW 2 unit, was stranded for 10 months on a Japanese-held island, fighting against 100-to-1 odds, with no radio for most of that time. A radio was improvised & sent, “Force intact. Still fighting. Badly need boots, quinine, money, and Tommy-gun ammunition.”
jNE6N TIL drinking alcohol makes you want to pee because for every 200 millilitres of beer you drink, your kidneys generate 320 millilitres of urine. “Breaking The Seal” is real.
yQb6v TIL During the New York City Draft Riots of 1863, Leonard Jerome, famous wall street speculator and maternal grandfather of Winston Churchill, defended the New York Times office building with a Gatling Gun.
KYV9J TIL that Eternal September refers to the volume of new users to the Internet that occurred each September, when university students would gain access to it for the first time in the early '90s.
LyE9 TIL that “Sister” Amy Archer-Gilligan (1868-1962), who ran a nursing home, killed at least 5 people by poison (including her husband) but was possibly involved in more deaths as authorities found 48 deaths total at her nursing homes. Her story inspired the play and film Arsenic and Old Lace.