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TIL inside your cells there are tiny molecular motors that literally walk down paths on their tiny legs

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6YEY TIL an Indonesian politician makes a law to make porn illegal then gets caught watching porn in parliament.
nKZr TIL 70% of Tasmanian devils have died since 1996 due to a contagious facial cancer with a 100% fatality rate
kPpe TIL that a meteorite exploded over the Mediterranean in 1999. Had it occurred a few hours earlier on the same latitude, it would have triggered a nuclear war between India and Pakistan who were fighting the Kargil War at that time.
DJdj TIL of “hitchBOT”, a hitchhiking robot created as a social experiment and designed to be a robotic travelling companion. It successfully hitchhiked across Canada in 2014, but met its demise in 2015 while attempting to cross the United States, as the robot was decapitated & vandalized in Philadelphia
DGgP TIL Google wraps its undersea fiber optic cables in Kevlar to protect them from shark bites.