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TIL Chinese students can rent fake parents to meet their teacher to avoid embarrassment

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Wko59 TIL If you stretched the DNA in one cell all the way out, it would be about 2m long and all the DNA in all your cells put together would be about twice the diameter of the Solar System.
0dN51 TIL The Moon recedes away from Earth at roughly the same speed as fingernail growth (3.78cm/year)
W7k5d TIL being in possession of an Eagle feather in the US is punishable by a $250k fine, unless you are part of a federally recognized Native American tribe, with authority to collect them.
xYJ0 TIL that the special seaweed that tastes like Bacon when fried or smoked, Dulse, is already available in some stores in the smoked variety
9LEm TIL - Nikola Tesla was a proponent of an imposed selective breeding version of eugenics. Eugenics is the belief and practice which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population.