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TIL Canada will keep a foreigner's fingerprints for 15 years on attempting to enter the country, or until the applicant is 100 should they be refused entry on criminal grounds.

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nWaab TIL that the Titanic was the place of discovery for tiny iron eating microbes. These microbes form icicle-shaped “rusticles.” Which consists of 35% iron compounds and a community of symbiontic microbes and fungi. “Halomonas titanicae” is expected to dissolve the Titanic by 2045.
GY1bj TIL There was a speech drafted in case the Apollo 11 astronauts were stranded on the moon. “For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind.”
p8NEN TIL Life expectancy at birth was a brief 25 years during the Roman Empire, it reached 33 years by the Middle Ages and raised up to 55 years in the early 1900s.
nGwP TIL that the reflex that causes people to sneeze when looking at the sun is called Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst Syndrome, which abbreviates to ACHOO.
4XYMX TIL: Many scientists believe that the biggest difference between us and chimpanzees is not our logical intelligence, but our social intelligence and our drive to socialize with other people.