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TIL about "Conan the Bacterium", an organism that's been around for about a billion years more than us, can survive almost anything and will likely outlast us all.

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xVbRD TIL that chiggers don't actually bite or burrow but rather drill holes into our skin and then excrete enzymes that break the skin down into a liquid mixture; then they slurp up the mixture through a hardened skin cell straw. They basically make skin frappes out of us!
Vx00 TIL The U.S provides GPS service world wide for free, while U.S tax payers pay $2 million dollars a day to keep it operating.
gJx9 TIL that the famous “Fallout”-Style is actually called Atompunk.
a8Epy TIL: That under the pseudonym Doctor Spin, Andrew Lloyd Webber once released a Eurodance cover version of the most famous tune in the Game Boy version of the game Tetris. The song was popular at the time and reached number 6 on the UK singles chart in 1992.
mnBO TIL that Catalan activist Enric Duran took out 68 loans from a total of 39 banks between 2006-2008, with no collateral, and no intention of repaying, and used the money to finance activist movements, as an act of ‘financial civil disobedience’