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TIL that Komodo dragons have iron-coated teeth

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eW06 TIL In the US, “Muslim women are at least as likely as Muslim men to hold a college or post-graduate degree, and Muslim women are more likely to work in a professional environment than women from most other U.S. religious groups.”
9wVdD TIL the placenta develops from cells that originate from the embryo, and has the same DNA as the fetus. So eating the placenta is technically eating parts of the baby.
k86B TIL that James Doohan (Scotty from Star Trek) was shot six times while fighting for the Canadians during D-Day
rN7ad TIL of Gödel's Loophole, an "inner contradiction" in the Constitution of the United States which would permit the American democracy to be legally turned into a dictatorship.
grAo7 TIL that "Total Eclipse of the Heart," performed by Bonnie Tyler, was originally titled "Vampires in Love." Songwriter Jim Steinman wrote it while working on a musical of Nosferatu, with lyrics about the power of darkness and love's place in the dark.