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TIL chronic dehydration can cause respiratory problems.

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PDpG TIL Leland Stanford hired photographer Eadweard Muybridge to prove that a horse lifts all four legs in the air while galloping. In the process, Muybridge invented the motion picture on a farm that would become Stanford University.
xxoD TIL of Tim Jenison. A dude from TX who may have rediscovered a lost, elegant technique that might explain how the 17th century painter, Vermeer, was able to paint with incredible realism.
9Jj7 TIL Russia and USA are only 3.8km apart at the nearest point
78JQL TIL that Samuel L. Jackson was not supposed to wear jheri curls in “Pulp Fictions”. He was going to wear an afro, but that wig was brought to the set by mistake.
yBxp TIL entire 50-year operating budget of NASA from 1958-2008 was approximately 1/5th the cost of the 2008 Bank Bailout