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TIL It costs $100 to send Mark Zuckerberg a Facebook message

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PYXGZ TIL that the sex of a sea turtle is determined by the temperature of the egg. Below 81.86°F the hatchling will be male, above 87.8°F the hatchling will be female
vPj18 TIL that the term "Plasma" was used in biology before the state of matter was discovered
9Yg1B TIL Rifles like the AK-47 have curved magazines because their bullet cases are conical (a.k.a "tapered") rather than cylindrical. Thus, they stack in a curve. Tapered cases have less friction with the chamber when they feed or extract.
VMN0p TIL that Tim Burton made a tribute short stop-motion film for my distant ancestor Vincent Price, who also narrated it.
Zpvea TIL after his death, SS Nazi Josef Mengele was never buried. His skeleton was used as an educational aid for medical students at the University of São Paulo in Brazil.