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TIL heart cockles, heart-shaped clams, have shells with natural fibre-optic windows that channel sunlight to feed symbiotic algae while blocking UV rays. This 2024 discovery is the first known case of a living organism using bundled fibre optics.

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nepbo TIL a large part of the Chinese wall was made of rammed earth. The famous stone wall named the Ming Wall was finished in the 15th/16th century.
LMLm TIL 1 out of every 77 neonatal (first 4 weeks of life) male deaths is a result of circumcision. That’s more deaths than suffocation and cat accidents. Geez.
D1QjP TIL a 6 and 1/2 year old boy, Tyler Samuel Lee, won a contest to draw, write and voice a full episode of Dexter’s Laboratory
rkro TIL Thomas Midgley Jr, inventor of CFC and leaded gasoline, who is regarded as having the greatest impact on the atmosphere of any single organism in history also accidentally strangled himself to death with his final invention.
grZL4 TIL The oldest person alive is 116 and was born in 1907