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TIL that humans glow in the dark, but the light is 1,000 times weaker than the human eye can perceive

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GYNYJ TIL That Daniel Craig has been injured 5 times while playing James Bond. He does all of his own stunts, and has had his two front teeth smashed out, lost the tip of a finger, sprained his arm and knee in separate incidents, and pulled his ankle.
8LXP TIL that California uses inmates to fight forest fires. Prisoners take the jobs because it reduces their sentence, gets them outside, and pays better than typical prison jobs.
4XVlN TIL there's a restaurant in New York that doesn't employ chefs; they employ grandmas. Every day, a different grandma from around the world designs her own menu.
GAWMg TIL: Extra organs and body parts are more common than many people realise with extra nipples and teeth among the most common.
8ova TIL that there are well over a dozen different region-specific styles of BBQ food in the US