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TIL Ninety percent of all mobile phones sold in Japan are waterproof because youth like to use them even while showering

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EgKeP TIL about a billions of years old meteorite that held a beautiful secret.
RJP7 TIL Baby otters can’t swim at first, but their buoyancy makes it possible for the mother to wrap the pup in (sea)weeds to prevent it from drifting away when she needs to hunt
XEob8 TIL that Stefan Banach got his PhD by being tricked into taking an exam by a group of professors. He was led to believe that he was just discussing some math problems with random mathematicians.
9xN7 TIL that Henry Hall, a lighthouse keeper, died when molten lead fell into his throat as he was looking up at a burning lighthouse.
wYGY TIL In the apocryphal Book of Enoch, angels procreate with women and create a giant warrior race. The fallen angels also teach men to make weapons, how to apply eye shadow,and how to make jewelry. The book ends with them being imprisoned, and the earth being destroyed by a flood.