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TIL that a tribe on an island in the Pacific worships Prince Philip as a divine being

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JYK8Q TIL that Velcro was invented after burrs kept getting stuck to George de Mestral's socks, so he put one under a microscope and got the idea for a "hook and loop" inspired closure method.
jNNYa Lassie, stare deeply into my eyes.
woo4E TIL that chimpanzees are NOT 5 times stronger than humans. A chimpanzee's muscular performance can in fact only produce around 1.35-1.5 times the performance that human muscle can produce. This means that a large and athletic person will be as strong as a chimpanzee.
a6nN TIL that prior to 1970 keyboards did not have an “!” To type it you had to hit “period, backspace, apostrophe”
R7Em6 TIL that in World War 1, Nobel prize winning physicist Marie Curie developed mobile X-Ray stations to travel to the frontlines and assist army surgeons and preventing amputations when limbs were still intact. It's estimated that over a million wounded soldiers were x-rayed with her units.