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TIL: Snails have Teeth - Snails’ Teeth Beats Spider Silk As Nature’s Strongest Material

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Rrl7 TIL The United States is the only country in the world where property owners own the rights to the underground resources beneath their property
PvXE TIL that Niʻihau, the seventh largest Hawaiian Island, is privately owned by two brothers who inherited it, their great great grandmother bought it from the Kingdom of Hawai'i for $10,000 in gold in 1864.
mZMP TIL that the only Japanese survivor of the Titanic was branded a coward in Japan for having dishonored himself by not going down with the ship.
kJQXe TIL that the spiked tail of a stegosaurus is called a "thagomizer," a term originally coined as a joke in a 1982 Far Side cartoon. Paleontologists later adopted it as the official name.
M7RLW TIL that 10+ sexual partners in a lifetime heights cancer risk in men by 70% and in women by 91%