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TIL the magnets in an MRI are up to 60,000 times stronger than the earths core

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L7w9 TIL there is a logical fallacy called the fallacy fallacy, the fallacy of overusing fallacy in the analysis of arguments
g1g9 TIL that a lovestruck 13 year old girl of Houston, Texas attempted to drive all the way(with her mothers car) to her 12 year old lover she met in Xbox Live, who just happened to live in Kentucky. She was stopped at Tenesssee before she could get to her “boyfriend’s” place.
LKBm TIL Wooly Mammoths survived on a couple of isolated islands in Siberia for up to 6,000 years after the species had gone extinct on the mainland.
1P64 TIL that despite 2.5 to 4 percent of modern human DNA coming from Neanderthals, there are no known Y-chromosome genes from them. One hypothesis: modern human women’s immune system spontaneously aborted male fetuses carrying Neanderthal H-Y genes
epOjk TIL compulsive ice chewing and craving is called Pagophagia. It's a form of pica, often linked to iron-deficiency anemia.