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TIL that if humans could accelerate their arms at one tenth of the speed that a mantis shrimp does, we could throw a baseball into orbit.

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16JD4 TIL Men and women have different hearts and sex mismatch of transplants leads to higher death rates. Although males' bodies are more likely to reject female hearts, both sexes show 10% increased mortality when receiving a transplanted heart from someone of the opposite sex.
j9Qp TIL giraffes only sleep 30 minutes a day, were thought until the 1950’s to not sleep at all, and only kneel down to drink water once every few days. Of all mammals giraffes sleep the least.
b5y0 TIL In the 50s and 60s the American government forcibly removed Native American children from their parents and put them up for adoption or into institutions, in order to have them assimilate into “white culture.”
ADjn TIL that the FBI arrested 5 Israelis on 9/11 for filming the attacks and celebrating with cries of ‘joy and mockery’.
bOxQ TIL Matt Damon did not take part in military training exercises with Tom Hanks and other actors prior to filming Saving Private Ryan. The filmmakers wanted to preserve a real-life resentment of Damon because the other actors’ characters resented Private Ryan in the film.