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TIL Google makes use of a Kevlar-like layer to protect its underwater internet cables from shark bites.

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EpNp TIL on 2007 a student was arrested and expelled, from a Fort Bend, TX high school, for creating a Counter Strike map of his school.
rebw TIL if Forrest Gump had kept his Apple investment from the end of the film he would now be worth well over $7 billion.
v0xL TIL The most ancient evidence of human tattooing is found on a mummified 5,300-year-old Neolithic Iceman who has a total of 61 tattoos of lines and patterns, interestingly most of which overlap with classical acupuncture points used to treat rheumatism, a medical condition that plagued him.
dDW0j TIL you’re allow to bring Artificial Skeleton Bones, carry on and check. I’m so confused as to why it has its own webpage.
x6v8B TIL that the stylized Dubai logo is the Arabic text for Dubai superimposed atop the English text