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TIL: The bony-eared assfish is the vertebrate with the lowest known brain to body mass index.

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dDpEB TIL a woman superglued her own teeth back into her mouth when one would fall out for more than a decade because she was terrified of the dentist. As a result, she lost 90% of the bone supporting her teeth in her upper jaw. When she finally sought help, most of her teeth had to be removed & replaced.
9BLB TIL Brainstorming has been shown to produce fewer and lower quality ideas than when people work alone.
x6beD TIL of the "Shoe Fitting Flouroscope" or "X-Ray Shoe Fitter" which existed in shoe stores up until the 70's - Allowing customers (mostly children) to look through a viewer at a live X-Ray of their feet, to see the bones of their toes and how they lined up with the stitching of the shoe's sole.
7ryEO TIL The average human penis is twice the length of a gorilla's, and humans have the overall largest penises of the apes
QN9mE TIL Axolotls are able to regrow their limbs, tail, gills, brain and heart in just a few weeks