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TIL our hands and feet wrinkle in water to provide better grip on wet objects

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8ex4X TIL: Chess boxing is a sanctioned sport in which two competitors alternate between rounds of boxing and blitz chess until one wins by checkmate or knockout.
Nok6 TIL that the first recorded utterance attributable to a native of Scotland was made when a Roman lady criticized the sexual morals of Caledonian women, and a Caledonian woman replied: “We consort openly with the best of men while you allow yourselves to be debauched in private by the worst”
VBjoZ TIL that when planning the landmark event "Crisis on Infinite Earths", DC hired a researcher to read every comic DC ever published. It took them two years to complete this task.
erM5 TIL: thanks to how large he’s become over the years - the Godzilla from the 2014 film would produce 12,921,400 gallons of urine per day.
0ALM TIL Mr. Rogers personally molded the 100 Billionth crayon at Crayola