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TIL Japanese scientists created a virtually painless needle by studying mosquitoes

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O4D7 TIL Marvel Comics created a superhero, Blue Ear, specifically for a 4 year old boy who was uncomfortable wearing hearing aids, which he needed. The boy told his mom “Superheroes don’t wear hearing aids” so Marvel created one.
m14YO TIL The Lego sequence in “Spider Man: Across the Spider-Verse” was done by a 14-year-old animator, after the filmmakers were so impressed by his fanmade Lego recreation of the trailer
awyPJ TIL DMX avoided a maximum jail term for tax fraud when his lawyer played his song "Slippin'" for the judge in order to show X's struggles and how bad his upbringing was.
JYyVk TIL of the Wait Calculation that states that an interstellar mission that cannot be completed within 50 years should not be started at all as it will be overtaken by more efficient and faster later missions
0d9e5 TIL that not only autistic people have problems with social etiquette, allistic people (non-autistic) tend to avoid engage in social interaction with them.