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TIL: If following USDA guidelines strictly, it is impossible to meet their potassium and sodium intake recommendations at the same time.

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g4VX TIL Sri Lanka and India were connected by a faint 50 kilometer long sandbar that existed until 1480 when a storm broke it. People used to walk the wispy sandbar from the mainland to the large island in the Indian Ocean, losing sight of the land masses. Scientists still argue as to how it was formed.
XERjD TIL: In 1996, a man broke into a radio station in New Zealand held the staff hostage and made them play Kermit's Rainbow Connection non stop.
Jonj TIL when Nicolas Cage was sleeping at his home, he was awoken by a presence. Cage awoke to find a naked man before his eyes, eating a fudgesicle and wearing his jacket. “It sounds funny” Cage said, “but it was horrifying”. Cage used “Verbal Judo” to get the man to leave. Cage now lives on an island.
D14WP TIL that when Sean Connery dated Julie Hamilton, she originally wasn't attracted to him until she saw him in a kilt, declaring him to be the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen in her life.
Yp0vP TIL that researchers showed that generating positive emotions directed towards yourself and others through contemplative meditation, can improve both your emotional as well as your physical health.