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TIL Handwriting has been deemed a “useless skill” in Finland and will no longer be taught to children. Instead, typing will be taught.

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GY4l7 TIL of Turritopsis Nutricula, a jellyfish that returns to its polyp stage after becoming old, effectively becoming immortal.
VaA0 TIL the Chinese word for cat is Mao, so cats pretty much say their name all the time like Pokemon
MR67 TIL that dropping a marshmallow onto a neutron star would create an explosion bigger than 1000 hydrogen bombs.
nml9 TIL the Ottoman Empire was still in existence the last time the Cubs won the world series.
KOO5R And without it, could I do everything a five-toed human does?