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TIL Human fingers can feel objects as small as 13 nanometers. “This means that if your finger were the size of the Earth you could feel the difference between houses and cars.”

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8bdK TIL Green Man from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” is based on a true story. Show creator Rob McElhenney attended an Eagles game with a friend, who ripped off all his clothes after they won, revealing a full-body green lycra suit, and yelling “I’m the Green Man!”
694Lw TIL a 1912 cookbook deemed Vegetable candy "the ideal confectionery" & "insurance against the evil effects of gluttony!" Before an undue amount of sugar is consumed, the mass of the vegetable base satisfies the appetite.
OoDw1 TIL about Lt Commander Joseph Vaghi. He was an US Beachmaster during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, acting as a "traffic cop" orienting the landing troops. Giving orders under heavy machine gun fire, he ran into an old classmate, who asked him, "Hi Joe, what the hell are you doing here?"
Xnrj TIL Elephants killed 605 people in Assam b/w 1994-2006. In South Africa, 3 elephants killed 63 rhinos. Biologists think increased elephant aggression is the result of species-wide trauma from poaching & habitat loss, and direct trauma for those who saw family members murdered before their eyes.
XEAEj TIL that we originally discovered how digestion work because a man named Alexis St. Martin developed a fistula in his stomach after a gunshot wound. The physician placed bits of food on a spoon and inserted them into the mans stomach through the fistula in order to observe the process of digestion.