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TIL Naked mole rats are NOT blind, are NOT moles or rats or totally hairless, and can move their incisors separately or together like chopsticks. Oh, and they're resistant to cancer.

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W7y1A TIL Olivia Newton-John was the granddaughter of German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate Max Born.
loe1V TIL about Ulrich Inderbinen a swiss mountain guide who climed the Matterhorn 370 times until the age of 89.
WkGZ8 TIL that VISA obtained a patent in November 2019 to convert US money into a digital currency controlled by central bank
awRQM TIL that anyone on earth can request and reserve time using the Hubble Space Telescope.
XKMj TIL of Washoe (chimpanzee), the first non-human to use Amercian Sign Language. When Washoe’s caretaker returned to work after a miscarriage, Washoe ignored her. The caretaker then signed “MY BABY DIED”, to which Washoe replied “CRY”, simulating a tear running down the caretaker’s face.