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TIL Red wine helps you lose weight!!!!
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TIL that there's a term for an altitude where there pressure is so low that the boiling temperature for water is the same as normal human body temperature and exposure will cause all of your bodily fluids (minus your blood) to be boiled off, causing death. Armstrong's Limit/Line. Roughly 60k-62k'.
XEPgr
TIL Koala Bear fingerprints are almost indistinguishable from human fingerprints. A forensic scientist suggested that koala bears were unlikely to be at the scenes of crimes, but police should be aware of the possibility.
Y7L5G
TIL some sharks lay spiral shark eggs and others lay 'mermaid purses'. Some sharks are oviparous (lay eggs), some are viviparous (give birth to living young) and other sharks are ovoviviparous (the eggs hatch inside the mother before the young are born alive)
OKm1
TIL that the Velcro fastener was invented when a Swiss man named George de Mestral went for a walk in the woods and wondered if the burrs that clung to his trousers (and dog) could be turned into something useful. The answer, as we all know today, was yes.
0aEN
TIL small number of female prostitutes in Nairobi have become resistant to AIDS, though they often have sex with infected men.