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TIL that geckos feet attach to surfaces on a microscopic level

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16AD TIL Astroglide was invented by NASA engineers while working on the space shuttle
ep0OL TIL Wall Street organizations uses a stock-buying routing method called Payment for Order Flow (PFoF) that's banned in Canada, U.K., and Australia - due to a high potential for fraud and manipulation.
Jo0j TIL The Military Kicked Geraldo Rivera Out Of Iraq in 2003 Because He Literally Broacasted The Location and Sensitive Details About Future Movements of The Airborne Unit He Was Accompanying Live on TV
wKNJ TIL in the 80s, DC’s New Guardians comic featured a villain named the Hemo-Goblin; a white supremacist vampire who drank AIDS-infested blood and bit black people.
nWpdo TIL about the 3rd gender in Zapotec cultures in Oaxaca, Mexico