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TIL metals permanently fuse when touching each other in outer space, an effect known as 'cold welding'

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oROQ8 TIL birds can eat hot pepper without a problem because they don’t feel its hotness
69E4W TIL That crocodiles have an extra set of teeth growing inside their normal teeth.
4XER5 TIL that Australia’s largest bird of prey, the wedge-tailed eagle, is so territorial it will attack helicopters and small planes to defend its nest sites.
9w4M TIL Black Irish aren’t black (i.e. of African descent), but rather they generally have dark hair and are most likely related to people who migrated from the Iberian peninsula as the last ice age ended.
GYR0N TIL that a man named Ted Jorgensen had abandoned his son at birth and decades later got a visit from a biographer who walked in his bike shop asking about his son who he had never heard of before that moment, Jeff Bezos.