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TIL the largest man-made beach is 26 miles long.

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ZpZ74 TIL that there is a species of spider which produces 'milk' from its own body, which it uses to nurse baby spiderlings for the first several weeks of their lives. It's one of only 120 species of spider that can stand the company of others for more than three weeks.
Y7Gbx TIL less than half (43%) of the cells in the body are human. The rest belong to microorganisms and bacteria.
NpE1 TIL that American channels re-dub British shows like frozen planet, to make it more understandable for american veiwers.
WkLod TIL about Guy Tyler, who made hundreds of audio recordings of Native American languages. They provide an archive of languages in danger of being lost to erasure of native culture, as well as helped protect the sacred site at Ward Valley from becoming a nuclear waste dump [link to audio in comments].
5YKPB TIL That your brain doesn’t stop developing at the previously thought age 21-24 and new studies show it may even keep developing until age 40