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TIL that sign language some African Americans use is different from that of White Americans.

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R5eo4 TIL inside a cell, molecules can move at speeds upward of hundreds of miles per hour. A typical enzyme can randomly collide with potential reactants up to 500,000 times per second just from moving so fast.
NWVP TIL Chad has the world’s healthiest diet even though it is an extremely poor nation. It has access to vegetables, fruits, beans and legumes, nuts and seeds, whole grains, and fish, but almost no availability of processed meat and sugary beverages, or foods containing trans fats or sodium
4dVb TIL The person who holds the record for most Oscars is Walt Disney. He has 22.
D1Ne TIL if you get poisoned by silver it will turn your skin irreversibly blue known medically as argyria.
kOvDB TIL Concerned about the number of cobras in Delhi, British colonial officials created a bounty, only to discover secret cobra farms created to collect the bounty. When the officials shut down the program the farms released their snakes, meaning they had far more cobras than before they started.