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TIL that there exists a chemical compound so volatile that it will set fire to literally everything. Except candle wax.

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yQRYl TIL that the reticular activating system is the part of the brain that sorts through all the billions of pieces of information our senses take in and then allows through the important stuff. It is why after you a buy a red sedan, you now see red sedans everywhere when you didn't notice them before.
wLJAY TIL a study found that 37% of men produce viable sperm in their pre-cum
LQAJv TIL that Sylvester Stallone asked Survivor to write the song Eye of the Tiger because Queen wouldn't let him use Another One Bites the Dust.
BneD TIL Australia is the only country in the world to have significant net positive immigration with the US. That is, more people leave the US for Australia than vice versa.
wLEv7 TIL Scientists can use a person's own stem cells to make male eggs and female sperm. They have also successfully fertilized a male mouse with an egg cell made of its own cells, producing healthy offspring only from a single mouse's genome. So far, this has not been tested with humans.