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TIL that motion sickness is a psychological defense mechanism against neurotoxins. Your brain realizes there is a disconnect between what your eyes see and what your inner ear feels and concludes you are poisoned and hallucinating so it induces nausea and vomiting

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P1Oow TIL there are no skeletons in the wreck of the Titanic or debris field. At depths of 3,000+ feet, seawater is undersaturated with calcium carbonate. Once animals ate the flesh of Titanic's passengers and crew, their bones dissolved.
xVgOk TIL one of the main reasons why double jeopardy laws were overturned in England & Wales was to ensure that the murderers of Stephen Lawrence were brought to justice. The overturn meant that you can now be brought to trial again for murder in light of substantial new evidence.
JYkw1 TIL that wood ants practice chemistry, and will synthesize an antibiotic substance using tree resin and formic acid to protect the health of their colony. It is considered to be the most advanced act of evolutionary pharmacology seen in the animal kingdom
x6yWo TIL more than 100 U.S. political leaders have ancestors who were slaveholders, including all but one living U.S. president