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TIL George Takei spent two years of his childhood in a Japanese internment camp

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7rBLb TIL the Five Love Languages. It outlines five different general ways that romantic partners express and experience love, which Chapman calls "love languages". They are acts of service, gift-giving, physical touch, quality time, and words of affirmation.
Ra59 TIL that even though the Dalai Lama can’t swim, his greatest fear is being eaten by a shark
ep7n5 TIL Scientists studying visual perception superglued patches on cuttlefish to Velcro 3D glasses on them. The cuttlefish kept the glasses on long enough for the research team to determine that they have stereo vision (like humans).
oBAdW TIL that earwax varies by ethnicity. Black or white people typically have yellow and sticky earwax, while Asian or Native Americans typically have dry and white earwax.