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TIL that two skinny tires on one wheel are better in the rain and no worse in dry conditions than a standard tire

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1a9D8 TIL that the vas deferens can regenerate (grow back) even if as much as five centimeters (two inches) of it have been surgically removed.
WkkMY TIL During his 2009 TED talk, Bill Gates opened a jar of mosquitoes saying “Malaria is spread by mosquitoes. I brought some… I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected” & waited for ~a minute before telling the audience that the bugs were malaria-free.
VBJEp TIL In the 1970s, Irish banks went on strike -- so people made their own currency, and the pubs kept the country from falling into ruin
b64Ep TIL Scots formed a wealthy minority in 16th-18th Century Poland with a Scot even becoming the mayor of Warsaw
J1Jd8 TIL Germany’s Goettingen State University Library seeks to house everything printed in 70 Siberian and Arctic languages. In Siberia there are nearly zero publications in these languages because so many of the minority languages are nearly dead