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TIL that sunlight provides a protective effect against influenza and other viruses

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nYMY TIL the scientific adviser to the 2014 film Interstellar spent two weeks talking Christopher Nolan out of having a character travelling faster than the speed of light, as it defies the laws of physics
V6B0 TIL: In 2009, the President and Cabinet of the Maldives held a meeting underwater - in SCUBA gear - to sign a declaration calling for global cuts in carbon emissions. The Maldives is expected to disappear under rising seawater this century.
01XL TIL hedgehogs do not technically have quills and are NOT related to porcupines, rather Shrews.
D157V TIL that Nintendo pushed usage of the term "game console" so people would stop calling products from other manufacturers "Nintendos", otherwise they would have risked losing their trademark.
M7Xom TIL about the Bajau people, a sea fairing Austronesian group who have evolved bigger spleens, letting them store more haemoglobin-rich blood, which is expelled into the bloodstream when the spleen contracts at depth. They also intentionally rupture their eardrums.