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TIL that starving men can sense the Earth's magnetic field when exposed to blue light.

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yQbja TIL the avarage human body has enough iron in it to forge a metal nail that is 3-inches long, enough sulfur to kill all fleas on a dog, enough carbon to make 900 pencils, enough potassium to fire a toy cannon, enough fat to make 7 bars of soap, and enough phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads.
N7GkP TIL that half the rice grown in California is the offspring of a mutant strain created in the early 1970s by radiation breeding
KdBQ TIL that it was only after the death of Buddy Holly in a plane crash that the media stopped publicly reporting the names of the deceased until the next of kin has been notified
NXLMN TIL there exists a research group dedicated to identifying and classifying plastic bread clips - the Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group (HORG)
VBjG8 TIL There was a class of small tanks between the 1920s and 40s called Tankettes