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TIL that hundreds or thousands of mites - microscopic tiny eight-legged animals - are living in the pores. They are related to spiders or ticks, spend most of their lives in our pores, and while we sleep, they crawl out onto the skin's surface to mate and then head back to lay their eggs.

0dRQy TIL about Sedna, a dwarf planet in our solar system that has an extremely eccentric orbit, which has an 11,390 year Orbital Period, and right now, it's about as close to us as it will be for a VERY long time.
woOjP TIL there was a Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes in Nova Scotia 22 years before the NHL. The slap shot and goalie butterfly technique originated there. Read more - "Black Ice: The Lost History Of The Colored Hockey League Of The Maritimes 1895-1925," by historians George and Darrill Fosty
Pv0J TIL sunflowers can “remove up to 95% of uranium of contaminated water in 24 hours”. And “experiments in Chernobyl have demonstrated that they can concentrate on 55 kg of plant dry weight all the cesium and strontium radioactivity from an area of 75 m2”.
n6Mb TIL Groups of Hermit Crabs will sometimes form “Vacancy Chains” around empty large shells that they themselves are too small to fit into. Once a large enough crab comes to occupy the big shell it initiates a mass swap of shells so that all crabs in the chain can get an upgrade.
xVo7D TIL Keanu Reeves struggled with dyslexia in school and started acting because it was his way of "coping with the fact that I didn't really fit in."