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TIL Brumotactillophobia is the term for the phobia of different foods touching each other, a usual occurrence in the OCD experience.

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8aZd8 TIL Creators of Thalidomide were high ranking nazis and there is a possibility it was tested on prisoners in concentration camp inmates
X0o8R TIL Why paper cuts are so painful is b/c at a microscopic level, paper is actually quite rough. A knife makes a straight cut, but paper acts like a saw blade and does more damage to cells and nerve endings. Paper also leaves behind tiny fibres and chemical residues, irritating the wound even more.
Wkv5o TIL mantis shrimps can punch with the force of a bullet. They have one of the fastest and the most powerful punches in nature.
67D7 TIL that when the EU would unite its armed forces, it becomes the second largest army in the world
Xj66 TIL scientists recreated a 9th century onion and garlic eye remedy from an Anglo-Saxon manuscript, and found that it killed 90% of antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria (MRSA).