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TIL that when South Korea representatives open the door at the DMZ meeting room for the North, they hold hands to prevent being pulled across the border.

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mxWaM TIL that, whilst botulism affects 200 Americans every year, Avian botulism kills vast swathes of birds, with single outbreaks killing ca. 50,000 birds and several outbreaks occurring per year
D1JJJ Today I learned that that skin flap on cats' stomachs is not due to overweight. Instead they may serve to protect the cat's internal organs when in fights. It also allows for the cats to stretch more when running/jumping and provides room for an extended belly in case of a bigger than usual meal.
mgKY TIL Adam Savage was once called by the FBI bomb squad because he left a voicemail on a wrong number about making a “thermal detonator”
MeRl0 TIL Work at Bell Labs resulted in 9 Nobel Prizes & 4 Turing Awards. Bell laid the first transoceanic phone cable, mapped dark matter, created radio astronomy, the transistor, laser, solar cell, information theory, Unix, C & C++, error detection, cell phones, optical tweezers, electron lithography.
69YMZ TIL Davyon Johnson, an 11 year old boy from Muskogee, Oklahoma, saved a fellow student from choking and pulled a disabled woman from a burning house all in the same day. He got the key to the city as a reward.