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TIL that the Eiffel tower grows 6 inches while tilting away from the sun in the summer due to thermal expansion

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daA8 TIL smoker’s bones are far weaker than non smoker’s, and take far longer to heal.
e0kw6 TIL that tumbleweeds are not actually native to North America, but Russia. While they are a quintessential image of the American West, tumbleweeds arrived from Russia in 1870, and are known to be invasive, often "driving ranchers out of their homes through sheer abundance."
ne8b TIL the 1964 earthquake in Alaska was so big that water sloshed in wells in Africa
JYPEm TIL in order to prevent people from taking 'secret photos' Japanese phone companies require phone manufacturers to disable the ability to turn off the shutter sound that you hear when taking a photo.
xV0n5 TIL: Mushrooms are the only vegetarian food that can make vitamin D. They contain a “pro-vitamin,” or precursor, called ergosterol that is converted into vitamin D when exposed to the sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation—similar to how your skin synthesizes the vitamin in response to sun exposure.