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

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D1E8e TIL, coyotes are actually twice as fast as roadrunners.
OoNxe TIL that, when Sierra Leone's 11-year civil war ended following intervention from the British military, the grateful public left graffiti in the streets of the capital that said, among other things, "Queen Elizabeth for king!"
6Egk8 Nokia and Vodaphone say they plan to put a high-speed cellular network on the moon.
9wYg7 TIL there are measure for diversity of exports a country produces and their ubiquity, or the number of the countries able to produce them (and those countries’ complexity) called Economic Complexity Index. Japan currently holds first place.
doB8 TIL of Bayard Rustin, the man behind MLK Jr’s use of non-violent protest from which Byron learned in India taking part in Ghandi’s movement. An openly gay black man who refused to hide his sexual orientation during his fights for civil rights.