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TIL there is a timezone running at UTC+08:45 that is observed by just 200 people in the south of Australia

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lorAK TIL In 2011 it came to light a forger had fooled one of NYC's most elite art galleries into selling $80M worth of fake art despite the forger misspelling Jackson Pollock in the signature (dropped the "c", whoops!) and using paint that was not available at the time the painting was allegedly painted
PYRMV TIL an authentic smile is called a "Duchenne Smile". It happens when the zygomaticus major muscle lifts the corners of your mouth at the same time the orbicularis oculi muscles lift your cheeks and crinkle your eyes at the corners.
mepv TIL Cicadas are the only known creature that can kill bacteria on contact via nothing more than nanostructure
9wNGG TIL there's a protein in our cells called PARP-1 that is constantly repairing damaged DNA our cells. But it can't repair the DNA in neurons (including brains) while we're awake. So it accumulates there until we fall asleep. Research now shows this accumulation of PARP-1 is what makes us sleepy.
LAAZ TIL the Mongolian idiom used when someone sneezes: бурхан оршоо бутын чинээ сахал урга. (Translated as “God bless you and may your moustache grow like brushwood.”)