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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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yQwrX TIL Japan owns a larger percentage of US debt than China, and China only own 3.9% of the total US debt and 15.5% of foreign debt.
0wPMv TIL about Aristarchus of Samos, who was the first person ever to hypothesize that the Earth revolves around the Sun almost 2,000 years before Copernicus, as well as the idea that distant bodies like stars were exactly like our own Sun and contained planets.
J1v7m TIL on Nov. 6th, 2000. The DEA made the largest LSD manufacturing bust in history. The shutdown of the lab network, halted an estimated 95% of the worldwide supply.
KOMl9 TIL one of Martin Luther King Jr's favorite hymns was Mahalia Jackson's rendition of 'How I got over." She sang it at the March on Washington in 1963 and in moments when he felt discouraged, he'd call her just to hear her sing.
J7w1 TIL that soldiers erroneously believed that the Ace in a pack of Bicycle playing cards was a symbol of death to the Viet Cong army and would scatter them around the jungle.