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TIL that Citizen once made a series of watches powered only by the temperature difference between the wearers skin and the ambient air.

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mKrR TIL Quentin Tarantino didn’t go to film school, and has said “When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, ‘No, I went to films’.”
b91k9 TIL that the term "spontaneous order" is used to describe the spontaneous emergence of order out of chaos in various contexts, such as in the formation of language.
Yp7Md National Geographic grantee Erin Spencer dives into this week’s Today I Learned with one of the leading threats to biodiversity: the invasive lionfish.
R5oD4 TIL: There has been numerous research which links height as one of the most important factors in attractiveness. 180cm + men have higher reproductive rates. In general, women reproduce with men 2.3+ cm taller, while men reproduce with 2.5cm+ shorter, younger women. This is consistent across cultures
OEDg TIL Armstrong’s Limit is the altitude above which no human can survive without pressurization, even if using an oxygen mask. Water in the lungs will boil at body temperature, due to the reduced pressure.