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TIL that papercuts hurt so much because the cut often bleeds very little or not at all, leaving the skins pain receptors open to the air.

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mxmLv TIL Elephants risk their lives to mine a cave in an extinct volcano in Kenya. The rock has 100 times more sodium than what they normally eat, as well as being rich in potassium and calcium. They dig with their tusks, grind it and swallow it. The bones of those who didn't make it line the trail.
epy8g TIL the panic of 1873 triggered an economic depression until 1877 in the USA and was known as the Great Depression until the events of 1929 set a new standard. The depression also occurred in Europe and started 2 decades of stagflation in Britain.
EB1V TIL an error of Costa Rica’s border on Google Maps led to an invasion of Costa Rica by the army of Nicaragua. Google responded, saying that their Maps “shouldn’t be used as a reference to decide military actions between countries”.
6dPJ TIL that naked mole rats are immune to cancer because of a cell defense mechanism, that stops a cell from replicating.
Rn87 TIL when Yao Ming played his first game in Miami, the Heat promoted the game by passing out 8,000 fortune cookies. Yao wasn’t offended because he had never seen a fortune cookie, and assumed it was an American invention