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TIL that some people with OCD suffer from “sensorimotor obsessions”, the hyperawareness of and focus on bodily processes or sensations such as the act of breathing, blinking, swallowing, or their own heartbeat.

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jDMp TIL the Quetzalcoatlus pterodactyl had a wingspan of about 35 feet (10.6 meters), or about the wingspan of a F-16 fighter.
GAxnQ TIL that Gutta percha, a commonly used root filling material, was once utilized for early submarine communication cables.
v1bQr TIL that on Halloween 1989, a K-Mart employee in Florida chased down a shoplifter while dressed as Batman. He had been trying his costume on for a Halloween party that night when the shoplifter struck. He recovered four cartons of cigarettes and two videocassettes.
PYgMV TIL there is a pig out there with a coat like a sheep that almost went extinct by the 1990s called the Mangalica pig.
epjY4 TIL: Space Debris Is Falling From the Sky—And It’s More Dangerous Than You Think