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TIL Humans have 16 more senses than sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. They include balance, temperature, hunger and pain.

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rRoXe TIL Windsocks are calibrated to visually show wind speed as well as wind direction. They are designed such that each inflated red/white stripe indicates a 3 knot increase in wind speed to a maximum of 15 knots.
ney4b TIL that two men led a team of 80 people to collect over 1.2 million golden orb spiders, milk them for their silk, and create the rarest textile on earth: a golden silk cape
78Or TIL Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar for portraying Hannibal Lecter in Silence of Lambs, with only 16 mins of screen time (14% of the films length).
EN07 TIL: An ‘extinct’ tree frog has been rediscovered in India after 137 years
epkY5 TIL that lightsaber fights have become an official sport in France. As of 2019, it was the first country in the world to recognize it as such.