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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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xVBBw TIL that naturally occurring magnets (lodestones) are only formed when lightning strikes magnetite, an iron ore.
b9AGa TIL the first modern office chair failed commercially outside the US, because it was too comfortable. The Victorian morality of the time valued rigid, unsupportive seats that allowed sitters to demonstrate refinement, willpower and morality through an upright posture.
X0o5r TIL that in 2022 scientists researching life’s origins observed that rocks known as basaltic glasses (usually found where lava is quenched or where meteorite impacts cool) were able to spontaneously link individual RNA letters - nucleoside triphosphates, into RNA strands up to 300 letters long.
e0r5g TIL that when recording the song "Giorgio by Moroder", Daft Punk used three different mics to capture Giorgio's monologue, each one from a different decade. The recording switches to the corresponding mic when Giorgio recounts that part of his life.
oOyA TIL That the saying “When it rains it pours”, was actually a saying created by the Morton Salt Company when they began using magnesium carbonate in their salt to prevent clumping in humid weather.