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TIL Sea Otters have the densest hair in the world, with up to 140,000 hairs per square centimeter. Humans have about 300/cm² on their head.

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X0BR8 TIL a M1892 revolver was recovered from the USS Maine after it exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898. It was gifted to Theodore Roosevelt, before he was President. He used this revolver in the charge up San Juan Hill. The gun was stolen twice while on display. Once in 1963 and then again in 1990.
Y1gG TIL the Illuminati was an actual secret society whose goals were “to oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power, and to support women’s education and gender equality.”
4ewJ TIL that after blogger Jeff Pataky wrote about the incompetence of the Phoenix police department, the Phoenix PD raided his home, seized his laptop, backups and cable modem, handcuffed and detained his female roommate for over three hours, and took his sons out of elementary school.
e07Zb TIL that in 1856, an Indian surveyor calculated the peak of Mount Everest to be exactly 29,000 ft. Fearing that nobody would believe that this was the exact height and nothing more than an estimate, he publicly declared the height to be 29,002 ft.
BrPjd TIL that, after hearing Leonard Cohen's album including "Hallelujah," the head of CBS Records said it wasn't good enough for a U.S. release. Years later, accepting an award, Cohen thanked his record company by saying, “I have always been touched by the modesty of their interest in my work.”