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TIL You Can 3D Print Any MP3 Into A Vinyl Record

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7LOO TIL Ants use “social immunization” – if one is infected with a fungus, they still lick the ant, spreading it throughout the colony. This practice both kills some of the spores, and builds immune resistance.
ANLag TIL 400 cables under the ocean provides all the internet to entire world
Eg1Qo TIL A local interrupted William the Conqueror's funeral service to complain about the church stealing his land (they did), and when attendants tried to cram William's already fat and now bloated body into the tomb it popped, stinking up the church.
b9wXN TIL that California is home to world’s oldest, tallest, and the largest trees.
woL7 TIL that Henry Kissinger’s senior thesis was 383 pages. After he published it, Harvard created the “Kissinger rule,” which restricted the length of all future undergraduate papers to 150 pages.