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TIL: Mourning a Dog Can Be Harder Than Mourning a Person

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Jeej TIL in ‘92, a ship from China lost 29,000 rubber ducks in the Pacific Ocean. After some washed ashore in Alaska, oceanographers started tracking their progress to learn about ocean currents. Ducks were found in Asia, Australia, the Americas, even Europe. Some were frozen in the Arctic for 15 years.
nWe89 TIL about the Poison Fire Coral (Podostroma cornu-damae) a deadly fungus that's toxins can be absorbed by the skin and cause your skin to peel away. It has been found outside of where it was thought to only exist.
b9NoQ TIL that a small puncture in a hydraulic line can produce a needle like stream that shoots oil into the blood if interfered, and that these cases often get misdiagnosed
nern9 TIL In 1915 a woman was found alive after her sister ran late to her funeral, then demanded she see her sister one more time. When they dug her out, the woman sat up and smiled, she went on to live for 47 more years.
Z85wG Today I Learned that the diagonal of a 4D Cube is equal to 2 edge lengths of itself.