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TIL that some people get magnets implanted under their skin so they can feel electromagnetic fields and pick stuff up with them.

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6E5ol TIL Catullus, a roman poet know for his sexual themes has a poem usually titled "I will sodomize you and face-fuck you" . It is so vulgar the 1st uncencored english translation is from the late 20th century and The poem is a diss to his friends who called his poems too feminine
QNlVp TIL gecko feet don't work like glue, suction cups, or velcro; by changing the angle of the hairs on their feet, geckos can sync-up the movement of electrons in the hairs and the electrons on the surface they want to walk on, generating van der Waals forces that adhere them to walls/ceilings at will
negMG TIL that the pseudonym Mark Twain actually comes from an archaic name for two fathoms, and that previous iterations of his name included “Josh” and “Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass”.
4kNyo TIL Japan has over 3000 businesses that have been operating for over 200 years
xVZe0 TIL that Russian porn star Lola Taylor has offered to have sex with the scientist who finds a cure for the current virus