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TIL Technically, you are never really "touching" anything because almost everything repel each other. When you are sitting in a chair, you are actually hovering above it at an unbelievably small distance.

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W4LX TIL of Genie Wiley who was kept as socially isolated as possible by her father for the first 13 years of her life. She was studied extensively after her release, helping further psychological and linguistic science.
Lk6lr TIL the Epic of Gilgamesh depicts stories that are virtually identical to Adam & Eve and Noah’s Flood, but predates the Bible by at least a thousand years, indicating that the Christian stories are not original but derived from ancient Mesopotamian legend
vPRQR TIL On Sept 1st 1857 New York had a parade to celebrate the first transatlantic telegraph cable. The project took four years to complete and the line failed later that month. It was not until 1866 when communications reopened after the third line was laid (the second line snapped at sea).
k7vd TIL It’s possible to trap a laser’s beam inside a stream of water, which will result in the beam being guided by the stream.
KYgQR TIL Linguists have identified a new English dialect in South Florida