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TIL that a mouse will survive a fall from a skyscraper unharmed, whereas an elephant will explode.

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nJab TIL: If a persons body odor smells good to you they have an immune system opposite of yours. This happens so the chances of finding a mate with the opposite immune system is greater and the chances that any offspring you produce together will have a stronger immune system is greater.
Z8NjR TIL The last school that was desegregated was Cleveland High School in Cleveland, Mississippi. This happened in 2016. The order to desegregate this school came from a federal judge, after decades of struggle. This case originally started in 1965 by a fourth-grader
aw5g0 TIL more than a dozen vulnerable people were involuntarily injected with plutonium as part of the Manhattan Project, in order to learn the human biological reaction to radiation poisoning
wLKW8 TIL Scotland has the highest percentage of cocaine usage in the world with around 1 in 40 scots using the drug.
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