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TIL Electric eels NEED to breathe air

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5MpQ TIL that Pope Benedict IX was the only Pope in the history to have served 3 Papal terms.. And the only Pope to have sold Papacy… and the First Pope said to have been primarily homosexual who held orgies in the Lateran palace
JYXoV TIL that the word restaurant (meaning "[something] restoring") was first used in France in the 16th century, to refer to a highly concentrated, inexpensive soup, sold by street vendors, that was advertised as an antidote to physical exhaustion.
mMp TIL Patrick Stewart is a public advocate for “assisted suicide”
m11ov TIL that people of Asian descent tend to have more severe obstructive sleep apnea than Caucasians of similar age and BMI. Differences in facial bone structure appear to be the reason why Asians have a higher risk for OSA.
x74D TIL: There’s a mysterious object called the “Great Attractor” that’s pulling on every object within hundreds of millions of light years.