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TIL there is a mutation that causes bones to become 8 times denser than normal that allow people to walk away from car accidents without a single fracture but with a trade off of being unable to swim.

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8a5mb TIL that vegetable oil can be used to power cars with a diesel engine.
J7Kj TIL that 35mm porn films from the 70’s are being remastered in HD and released on blu ray.
ADvn TIL NASA used less money ($526 billion) in it’s entire existence than the US military used in 2010 ($663 billion)
Aodd TIL that Hans Zimmer, the composer/producer for over 150 movies, including The Lion King, Gladiator, all Pirates of the Caribbean movies, Pearl Harbor, Rush, Inception, the Dark Knight, etc; had only 2 weeks of formal music education (piano lessons as a child).
Bg0Ye TIL about the Wallace Line, a geographical boundary that separates Asian mammals from marsupials of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. West of this line, no marsupials exist, but they thrive on the east side. At its smallest, there is a 22 mile gap between islands, separating the two mammal groups.