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TIL when you get a sunburn, it’s not your skin cells being damaged by the sun and dying, it’s your skin cells’ DNA being damaged by the sun and them killing themselves so they don’t turn into cancer.

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9Y1aX TIL: India is projected to be the most populous nation on earth by 2024
MDO7 TIL: if you take the cost of the raw materials in a human body; A human costs about $1985.77
PPZ TIL There are people who firmly believe nuclear weapons are a hoax
pD58 TIL that up until the 1800’s, it was commonly believed that placing dirty underwear in a bucket with wheat grains would “generate” mice. This was called spontaneous generation, the idea that life could be created from nonliving objects.
6ljl TIL that residents of the village of Shitterton in England grew so tired of people stealing a sign with the village name on it they replaced it with a 1.5 tonne block of stone with the village name inscribed upon it.