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TIL that Stephen Colbert is a Sunday school teacher
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TIL that Asbestos' health hazard are not caused chemically, but mechanically. Asbestos fibers are so small that they pierce cell walls without killing the cell. Fibers cause mutations by piercing the mitotic spindle, which disrupts mitosis & causes chromosomal damage responsible for the ill effects.
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TIL when the word "pussy" popped up in regular dialogue around the sixteenth century, it didn’t have a sexual connotation at all. It was used as a term of endearment to describe women in general and didn’t actually get sexual until the nineteenth century
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TIL Tashirojima is an island of the coast of Japan where the feline population outnumber the human population by 6 to 1, dubbing it as “Cat Island”
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TIL In Mongolia, if your foot taps against someone else’s, it is respectful to immediately shake hands with them.
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TIL the human body emits light as an energy called biophotons (unrelated to visible bioluminescence).