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TIL One Piece Creator Donated US$8 Million for Kumamoto Earthquake Relief, ¥500million in Luffy’s Name

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b98OZ TIL that “skin hunger” is an accepted term in academia describing the desire for more touch in different types of relationships.
6bBw TIL When France set off its first nuclear weapon, it made it more powerful than all the other nation’s first weapons combined. Then set it off in a remote part of Algeria. While they were at war with each other.
m1YpR TIL about Adam Rainer, the only person verified to have been both a dwarf and a giant.
neEdd TIL some plants that relied on extinct animals to disperse their seeds now rely on rodents, who will bury them. The seeds travel further when other rodents steal them, and bury them again, and again, and again, etc.
6E8kw TIL about a procedure called ”tooth in eye surgery”, where the patient’s tooth is removed, a tiny lens is inserted into it, and the tooth is the put inside the patient’s eye. It’s only used for rare cases of corneal blindness and only a few operations take place each year.