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TIL that we only breathe through one nostril at a time… and that the nostril alternates in 4 hour cycles!

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9YlOQ TIL the Anal Sampling Mechanism is a reflex which detects the contents of the rectal vault and allows for voluntary flatulation to occur without unexpected voiding of feces.
9r5m TIL Bill Gates once unleashed a swarm of mosquitoes into a crowd at a tech conference. Displaying the need to eradicate malaria, he explained to the crowd “there is no reason only poor people should be infected.”
oRW17 TIL that the Earth has been in an ice age for the past 2.58 million years, known as the Quaternary Glaciation.
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