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TIL Tattoos consist of pigment particles suspended in the skin that are permanent because they are too big to be removed by the body. Laser treatment causes tattoo pigment particles to heat up and fragment into smaller pieces. These smaller pieces are then removed by normal body processes.

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kO5Ym TIL : AS Long As Possible (ASLAP) is a visual art work by Finnish artist Juha van Ingen, consisting of a 1000-year long GIF animation loop which will automatically start over, after the last frame has played. ASLAP is intended to continue to play for ever.
XgXQ TIL that Japanese law prohibits women, but not men, from remarrying for six months after a divorce.
p800O TIL all liquid products aged in barrels lose part of their volume to evaporation, and this loss is called the "angels' share".
n09B TIL In NYC there is a pizza sized plot of land sitting in the middle of a sidewalk. As a result of a surveying error, it was left as part of an estate. The heirs refused to donate the plot of land to NYC, instead putting a mosaic on the plot in 1922. The mosaic is still there, surrounded by sidewalk
KEyR TIL that the flags of Haiti and Lichtenstein were identical by coincidence. The similarity wasn’t discovered until the two nations competed against each other in the 1936 Olympics.