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TIL that despite decades of research scientists still don't know how baby eels are made

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p86m8 TIL The answer to 'how fat do you need to be to stop a bullet?' depends on the gun. A 9mm bullet from a handgun will penetrate 60cm of human fat tissue. A bullet from an AK47 can shoot through a brick wall. A morbidly obese 125kg person can have around 60cm of fat at the thickest point.
x6KWg TIL shed antler hunting is illegal in many places
d8Paj TIL that inter-service rivalry as well as tactical differences between the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy hampered the already deteriorating war effort during WW2. The rivalry was so bad that the Army has their own ships and the Navy has their own infantry groups.
rN1d4 TIL about Ashok Khemka, an IAS officer (Indian Civil Service bureaucrat), who has been transferred 54 times in 29 years by state governments, because he keeps exposing corruption.
66xY TIL tanning beds have been classified as a Class One carcinogen by the World Health Organization, the same as plutonium, and Brazil has banned tanning salons and the sale or purchase of tanning equipment outright. 30 US States have some restrictions.