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TIL that continents move at the same rate fingernails grow

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b9GV0 TIL A doll used in a movie brought more than $200,000 at auction
9Ydo6 TIL Astronauts can’t cry effectively in space. Rather than gravity pulling the tears down as it does on earth, the tears congeal in their eye and sting.
dDaV8 TIL the first scientific specimen of the world's largest butterfly, the Queen Alexandra's birdwing, was collected "with the aid of a small shotgun"
g8e9 TIL there were two versions of the Dennis the Menace comic, released at the same time, on different sides of the atlantic, by different authors, with no plagiarism involved.
KOE5J TIL in 2016, "a boy was killed and 20 others infected by anthrax released when retreating permafrost exposed the frozen carcass of a reindeer killed by the bacteria at least 75 years earlier; 2,000 present-day reindeer were infected, too, carrying and spreading the disease further."