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TIL that human children can regenerate fingertips as long as the proximal nail matrix remains intact.

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5rd8 TIL that stores on US military bases around the world don’t accept pennies as currency because they’re “too heavy and are not cost-effective to ship”
mjgY TIL That Jack Kilby, as a new employee at Texas Instruments, did not have a summer vacation. While the rest of his colleagues took their summer time off, he used his time to invent the integrated circuit
R7W1Q TIL "Adidas" comes from the name of its founder, Adolf "Adi" Dassler, who was a Nazi.
5VlRR TIL Speakers of the Australian language Guugu Yimithirr, use cardinal directions instead of right and left such as, “Shift a bit to the East!”
vQ9r TIL of Patricia Demauro who in May 23rd 2009 rolled a pair of dice 154 times continuously at a craps table, without throwing a seven. Odds of that is 1 in 1.56 trillion.