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TIL that human touch can dynamically detect something just 13 nanometers in size.

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j65mj TIL An endling is the last known individual of a particular species or subspecies. After the endling the species becomes extinct, never to walk the earth again. The first known use of the word endling occurred in an issue of the scientific journal Nature on April 4,1996.
m1X6v TIL a pregnant belly can explode.
WRr9 TIL that more and more researchers are arguing that BMI is not a good measure of healthy body weight.
QN76X TIL that 8% of our DNA comes from remnants of ancient viruses. And an additional 40% is made up of repetitive strings of DNA that's also thought to have viral origins. Almost half our DNA didn't come from us.
Be1b TIL in 2014, South Korean Christians put up a Christmas tree visible from the North Korean Border. North Korea responded by calling it a “tool for psychological warfare” and threatened to bomb it.