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Py7g TIL that John F. Kennedy, Aldous Huxley, And C.S Lewis all died on the same day.
x6b5b TIL That the functional sleeve buttons on suit jackets nowadays trace their origins back to military surgeons as they would unbutton their sleeves to perform surgery to avoid staining their sleeves when attending to patients. Hence the apt term “Surgeon Cuffs”.
X14E TIL that instead of venom, the Braconid wasp produces an immune-suppressing virus which paves the way for its parasitic larvae. This adaptation is the result of a 100-million year old virus which altered the wasp’s DNA leading to the formation of an organ whose sole purpose is to assemble the virus.
rRNoy TIL To understand a pun, your brain' right and left hemispheres have to work together, due to the unique structure of it
VBplm TIL that if the entire observable universe were shrunk to the size of the earth (12000 km diameter), the earth would be about 180th of the size of an atom