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TIL that facial recognition on an iPhone probably doesn’t work on dead people.

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Gobj TIL that New York imprisons more people per capita than Rwanda, where tens of thousands are awaiting trial for their role in the 1994 genocide there
loVb1 TIL Bones produce piezoelectricity when stress is applied and forms electrical dipoles that attract osteoblasts. Osteoblasts deposit calcium and other minerals on the part of the bone that is stressed which increases the density of the bone.
oRywA TIL the Pioneer plaque man and woman were originally intended to be shown holding hands, but Carl Sagan soon realized that an extraterrestrial might perceive them as a single creature rather than two organisms.
E1WQV TIL about "glacier mice": fuzzy green balls of moss that form on top of glaciers and move like a herd of rodents
OoaX7 TIL that Native Americans started the practice of reloading bullet cartridges during the Indian Wars. US military authorities found out and ordered all US soldiers to stomp on their fires cartridges after being fired. Frontiersmen took advantage of this and sold overpriced shells to the natives.