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TIL fresh snow can reflect 80% of UV light and can cause “snow blindness” which is a painful sunburn on your eyeball

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QaN6 TIL a ship’s cook was found alive in an air pocket inside a wreck, 100ft under the sea, 60 hours after it sank [bonus headcam video from very surprised diver in comments]
b9j7Q TIL Some Wasps Lay Eggs in Different Kinds of Harmful Insects So As Not to Spread and Inflict More Damage
NE6E TIL that roughly 2/3 of the US population lives within 100 miles of the border.
Ypxvx TIL about Aki Mukai, a Japanese celebrity who used surrogacy to have children. Stricken with uterine cancer, she willingly underwent a 10-hour operation that moved her ovaries into her chest in order to keep them safe from radiation treatment.
0dXQ5 TIL that a brain can be large but made of relatively few neurons if those neurons are huge, like in an elephant; primate neurons are small, and bird neurons are even tinier.