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TIL there are 12 U.S. cities with a population of 1.

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P1Yrg TIL that less than half of all societies kiss with their lips, according to a study of 168 cultures from around the world and a professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada Las Vegas found that only 46% use lip-to-lip kissing in a romantic sense, excluding things like parent-child kissing.
RJe1 TIL that the flaw that destroyed Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986 almost occurred on another mission a year earlier. One of the astronauts on the 1985 flight was told that “you came within three-tenths of one second of dying.”
4l6R TIL of a Biotech firm that can create fake rhino horns indistinguishable from real ones, and plans to flood the market with them so as to crash the price of Rhino horns and disincentive poaching.
BWWK TIL that in China they constructed a building with embedded wind turbines to provide its own power
BrWgK TIL There's a neurological disorder called "Alice in Wonderland" syndrome. This affects patients' perception in a way that they may suddenly feel that they have become giants or the room around them has shrunk. It most commonly affects children.