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TIL that the current World's Smallest Computer (smaller than a grain of sand) is a precision temperature sensor

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Am87 TIL that Star Trek: The Next Generation’s original uniforms were one-piece jumpsuits, designed one size too small to stretch and look smooth on camera. They were painful to wear, and after Picard’s chiropractor warned that actors risked permanent injury, the show gave them two-piece uniforms.
VMLp4 TIL Stress for long periods of time is a major factor in deciding where fat is stored in the human body, regardless of gender. People who secrete higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol accumulate more belly fat than others.
Brr1D TIL chickens used to be fitted with rose tinted glasses to reduce instances of chicken cannibalism and to help prevent attacks on injured birds.
wLDNP TIL that the Mayan people constructed the temples in a way that a handclap at the base of the temple produces an echo that sounds like the call of the sacred Quetzal bird. For them the bird was a messenger of the gods.
aPGZ TIL there hasn’t been an indoor mall built in the US in nearly 10 years.