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TIL that shark skin is not soft, but feel more like sandpaper.

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16R9r TIL that the Nobel Peace Prize comes with almost 1 million USD
e09aJ TIL India is the world’s largest milk producer, with 22 percent of global production, followed by the United States of America, China, Pakistan and Brazil
N1Oe TIL that when a Soviet research ship went to check on sunken Soviet submarine K-219 in 1988, it found several of the submarine’s missile silo hatches had been forced open, and the missiles, along with their nuclear warheads, were gone.
G5aJ TIL-Dr Asperger’s real accomplishment was identifying the full autism spectrum. He identified “higher functioning” autistic children to the Nazis in an effort to save them from mass murder in their eugincs program.
VMmZG Today I learned that humans have 3 cones that mix and blend to make all the colors that we can see. It turns out there is a special type of shrimp that has 16 cones. This means there are millions if not billions of colors that we can't even imagine let alone see.