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TIL humans have fewer genes than rice.

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VMPE0 TIL about the Doctors' Riot of 1788, which began after a medical student waved a dissected arm out the window at a boy who's mother had recently died and told him the arm belonged to her.
mxNLE TIL that the Soviets set up fake border posts at the Czechoslovak borders in order to trick emigrants, making them think they were already in Germany. Once comfortable, they would talk to an "American" agent, revealing their contacts.
RWXQ TIL that fortune telling is a class B misdemeanor in the state of New York. Under New York State law, S 165.35:
kOWag TIL one of the directors of the Japanese adult toy company Tenga is also masturbate-a-thon champion and has the world record for "longest time spent masturbating".
b6kmE TIL that in Yukon, Canada, there is a "desert" between mountains and forests. Despite the name, scientifically is not a desert in the traditional sense, are dunes created by glaciers 24,000 years ago, but locals nickname the place as "the world smallest desert".