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TIL that high pressure reverses anesthesia and alcohol inebriation, deep sea divers experiencing high pressure are resistant to anesthesa and alcohol. This helped reveal how anesthesa works

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9Y6Bp TIL that despite the odds seeming very low, 93% of lost dogs are reunited with their owner, and even after 24 hours of being lost, 55 to 65% are found and brought back
R54o1 TIL for American food labeling, 1 fl oz=30 ml EXACTLY, and the related units cup=240ml, teaspoon=5ml, tablespoon=15ml, are also perfectly round numbers in metric. "Weight" ounces, though, are exactly 28g.
xe7o TIL last year we found 1,458 new species of bacteria living in the bellybutton, everyone’s bellybutton ecology is unique like a fingerprint, and one volunteer’s belly button harbored bacteria that had previously been found only in soil from Japan, where he had never been.
Jxg8 TIL that for the first time part of a dinosaur skeleton has been discovered in amber with the finding of a tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur
8eRKG TIL about the Public Resource License of Scientific Advancement | Oxford | Released in 2021 to prevent universities from patenting student inventions, corps from patenting life/meds, and allows for any concept or work to be protected from WIPO so all humans can use freely; built from corp. law.