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TIL Sea otters hold hands while they're sleeping to keep from floating away from each other.

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XEkLk TIL that in the city of Iruma, Japan keeps track of their elderly citizen who have dementia by having placing a waterproof QR sticker on their fingernails or toenails
xpDo TIL that trial by combat is still technically legal in the United States.
9Yjor TIL that so many people around the world still use Kerosene lamps because they don't have electricity that they consume about the same amount of Kerosene as the US uses in jet fuel (which is essentially also Kerosene)
1ax6W TIL In high concentrations Glycerol sweetener is used to store skin grafts because it kills even extremely resilient viruses such as Herpes. At high concentrations it kills off viruses within a week.
neP6Y Today I learned that the genome of Golden Delicious apples has been mapped, and they have over twice as many genes as humans (57,000 genes vs. 25,000 genes).