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TIL: African spiny mice can lose 60% of the skin on their backs and re-grow the lost tissue without scarring! Researchers are looking into the genes responsible for this because these genes work in mammalian systems (growing back fur, muscle, etc) and could work in rehab medicine.

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e0WOn TIL the UNESCO estimates that about half of e world's spoken languages will disappear by the end of the century. Out of all languages in the world, 2,000 have fewer than 1,000 native speakers.
dD659 TIL that the silent fox is a hand signal used in parts of Europe and North America, and is mostly done in schools by teachers to calm down a loud classroom while usage has declined due to the gesture's similarity with the wolf salute, a Turkish nationalist gesture.
kODVE TIL that Jack White and Jack Black recorded a song together as Jack Gray
nevOB TIL L. Ron. Hubbard’s own son, L. Ron Hubbard Jr. was highly critical of Scientology and claimed black magic was the inner core of Scientology once stating, "my father did not worship Satan. He thought he was Satan."
4kXpJ TIL swarms of locust have crossed the Atlantic ocean to the Caribbean islands in 10 days from Africa before.