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TIL there's plastic in my blood. A lot of it.

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84kG TIL that the majority of war hammers looked more like regular claw hammers on poles than the huge mallets we imagine
xVnX5 TIL honey bees are not and have never been on the endangered species list
OoKo1 TIL that in Chinese/Peking Opera, a character wearing armor with flags on his/her back was meant to represent a general leading an army. Two such characters fighting on stage meant that a battle between two armies was taking place.
oJb8 TIL Wendy Carlos (who composed for Kubrick’s movies) built her own computer in 1953, 23 years before the Apple I. She was 14.
OoRx7 TIL about breatharianism: the (false and deadly) believe that humans do not need food or water but can survice on sunlight alone.