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TIL Scientists have created a liquid, bulletproof armor that hardens upon contact

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WbpN TIL there is a book titled “Everything Men Know About Women” by Alan Francis It is filled with over 100 blank pages and has sold over 1 million copies
epAvk TIL space stations smell like “combinations of antiseptic, garbage, and body odor.”
xWLw TIL Billionare Warren Buffet resides in a 6000 sqaure-foot home located in Omaha, Nebraska that he purchased in 1958 for $31,500 (roughly $250,000 present-day).
KYNd6 TIL that ~8 billion people are estimated to have latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), meaning they carry the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria without exhibiting active disease symptoms (~25% of the worlds population)
p8OBe TIL that in 1948, the overpopulation of beavers were causing problems in Idaho, so they dropped 76 beavers out of airplanes with parachutes to try to relocate the populations.