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TIL that even mild dehydration — about 1.5% loss in normal water volume — can affect your disposition, energy level, and ability to concentrate.

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dAKQ TIL that during the recording of Iron Maiden’s “Number of the Beast”, unexplained phenomena occurred. This all climaxed when the producer, Martin Birch, was involved in a car accident with a mini-bus transporting a group of nuns, after which he was presented with a repair bill for £666.
0wpjp TIL that the creators of a 2007 anti-piracy PSA were sued when they didn't pay royalties to the artist whose music was used in said PSA.
MAVK TIL that Texas banned prisoners’ choice of last meal after Lawrence Russell Brewer requested 2 chicken fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, fried okra, 1 lbs of BBQ, 3 fajitas, a meat lover’s pizza, a pint of ice cream & a slab of peanut butter fudge w/ crushed peanuts and ATE NONE of it
M7rJm TIL that Lewis Carroll's (author of Alice in Wonderland's) real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, and he was a Professor of Mathematics at Oxford.
ADKwx TIL that the first known interstellar object detected passing through our Solar System is an asteroid called ʻOumuamua, found in 2017. It's a rocky, cigar-shaped object tumbling through space and it required a new astronomical designation: I, for Interstellar object. ʻOumuamua is designated "1I".