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TIL Everyone has stripes on their body called “Blaschko’s Lines” that are typically invisible without UV light.

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GwwQ TIL Astronaut John Glenn and his wife have been married for 72 years. They are 94 and 95 respectively.
16aQP TIL CIA satellites in the 1960s would jettison heat-shielded film canisters with parachutes back to earth, to be retrieved in mid-air by plane
ldGr TIL By the end of the WW2 The Indian Army had become the largest volunteer army in history, rising to over 2.5 million men in August 1945.
nry7 TIL that workers in the UK can’t be forced to work over 48 hours a week unless they have opted out of this restriction.
ZLLG TIL that Dutch company Philips invented the cassette, portable radio, VCR, and CD