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TIL that technology based on the skin of poison dart frogs may solve aviations ice problem on airplane wings.

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ZyQa TIL that a Lyme disease vaccine was voluntarily pulled from the market after the manufacturer was sued by anti-vaccine groups.
kOyd5 TIL of Austin Tice, a freelance journalist and U.S. Marine Corps veteran who was abducted on August 14, 2012 while reporting on the civil war in Syria. He has since been missing for more than 9 years.
kO58B TIL that some people don't have an Internal monologue.
690Nm TIL the fun fact of “Your body has around 100,000 km of capillaries alone, the tiniest of your blood vessels, with a surface area of around 1000 square meters." Is not correct. The real value is closer to 9000 and 19,000 km.
OGEeY TIL Grass didn't exist until the Cretaceous