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TIL That Jellyfish Can Shut Down Nuclear Reactors

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VkQB TIL that Canada has a more powerful military than North Korea
WLKB TIL that sign language users have “accents”, and can often tell the region another user comes from through them, just like spoken language.
a9vo TIL Newborns’ crying is influenced by native language. In a 2009 study, French infants were shown to cry with a “rising melody contour” while German infants cried with “falling contours”.
ejmD TIL the Prime Minister of Hungary during WW2 killed himself rather than be complicit when his country was forced into the Axis
Vom8 TIL that an isolated cave in a Romanian rubbish dump led to the discovery of the first non-photosynthetic ecosystem