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TIL that you’re never actually touching anything. Your atoms’ electrons repel objects when they’re 10^-8 meters away from you, but you can feel the force of the resistance.

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RNl9 TIL The US government backed out of the film “independence day” because producers refused to remove references to the secret Area 51 site.
wowe8 TIL the film All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) was banned from Poland because censors felt it was "pro-German". Ironically enough it was also banned in Nazi Germany for being "anti-German"
Wkred TIL that Bill Nye's family has a history of a neurological disorder called ataxia and the reason he decided not to have kids was to avoid passing down the condition to them.
e0KYk TIL of the "poison squad": a group of young government employees in the early 1900s who, in order to test the safety of common food additives of the time, purposely ate ingredients including formaldehyde (embalming fluid) and borax (laundry detergent). Their work led to food labeling requirements.
mwpO TIL Israel has a long history of passing along secret US Military technology to China.