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TIL the human body emits light as an energy called biophotons (unrelated to visible bioluminescence).

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9xXD TIL the Paris Mosque helped Jews escape the Nazis by giving them Muslim IDs
Lex9 TIL that a group of Orthodox Jews in New Jersey joined their local school board and began redirecting funds from public schools to their childrens’ yeshiva classes…despite their children not attending any of these public schools
Bwye TIL a woman had a heart attack on a plane, when the stewardess asked if there was a doctor on board, 15 stood up, they were on their way to a cardiology conference.
kOx71 TIL: Japanese hipsters in Nagoya are dressing like cholos (urban Mexican Americans). Apparently, movies going back to the 80s, some Japanese autoworkers who fell in love with cars in LA, and a popular rapper popularized the trend, drawing people in withits perceived "rebelliousness".
5axD TIL Chinese vampires are depicted in movies as hopping around because in the Qing Dynasty people used to pay ‘corpse carriers’ to return dead migrants to their hometowns. They’d be transported at night lined up on bamboo poles, which would flex as the carriers ran, making the bodies appear to bounce