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TIL that scotch tape can generate x-rays
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TIL: In 1862, Victor Hugo was on vacation when Les Misérables was published. He queried the reaction to the novel by sending a single-character telegram to his publisher, asking “?”. The publisher replied with a single “!” to indicate the success.
W70ad
TIL a “Yellow Bellied Sapsucker” is a woodpecker not a western insult.
QNMe
TIL In Singapore, if you are convicted of littering three times, you will have to clean the streets on Sundays with a bib on saying, “I am a litterer”.
xve7
TIL that 20,000 bibles were once donated from the US to Romania. The Romanian government pulped most of them and turned them into toilet paper.
P1baE
TIL nematodes have no motile cilia and no flagella at all. Their spermatozoids move through ameboid motion.