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TIL limpet teeth are the strongest known biological material.

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kOamW TIL when King Louis XVI of France was executed via guillotine, it did not sever his neck. The blade went through the back of his skull and into his jaw.
DQ0Dj TIL that when you push an object along a surface, you're essentially breaking the bonds formed between the object and the surface, which on the macroscopic scale, is friction.
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e0kEk TIL there was a children’s show, Dr. Wonder’s Workshop, that ran for 7 years, that was done entirely in American Sign Language with English voiceovers.
GYmeG TIL about the largest Empires. Spain was the first global empire. The British was the largest ( 22% of the earth's land-mass). Mongol's was the largest contiguous and Portugal's is the longest-lived modern European colonial empires.