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TIL that millions of years ago Antarctica was once a rainforest that dinosaurs inhabited

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wE4Y TIL that mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
x6a9g TIL of the United States military training film A Welcome to Britain. Released in 1943, it educated GI’s about the less ethnically segregated UK and was narrated by Burgess Meredith.
RXKa TIL what happens when we drink sea water: A kidney can’t make urine from a concentration of salts of more than 2%. Seawater is made of 3% salt, so if we drink it the kidneys have to use existing water from our body to dilute the extra salt, which in turn makes us even thirstier.
78kNb TIL of Shelley Jackson’s Skin Project. Each single word of her 2095 word novella is tattooed on a separate volunteer.
m1aBR TIL that male porcupines pee on female porcupines in order to determine if the female is ready