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TIL what "Genuine Leather" really means.

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p8OZ TIL Some Paralympic athletes gain an unfair advantage by purposely injuring themselves on areas of their body with no feeling. It’s called “boosting” and the goal is to trick the body into triggering a kind of fight-or-flight response, and in doing so, increase performance.
Z8kLo TIL that Jesus is the most mention person in the Quaran, Mary is mentioned more times then she is in the New Testament
Z89oo TIL the television show “Star Trek” aired 22 years before the first evidence of an exoplanet, in 1988, (planet outside our solar system) and 26 years before the first confirmed observation of exoplanet.
Jyn8 TIL Redheads Require Up To 20% More Anesthesia To Achieve The Same Result.
Oap6 TIL In WWII, partially due to America’s ship-building rate, advances in radar technology, as well as cracking the “Enigma code”, German U-boats had a 75% casualty rate by the end of the war,(the highest of all German forces).