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TIL teeth are not bones but are evolved fish scales

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KYYDJ TIL in a four year span, road debris caused more than 200,000 car crashes, resulting in approximately 39,000 injuries and more than 500 deaths in the US.
rErW TIL Brazil has never been on the losing side of a war.
1VPd TIL The Queen of England is the legal owner of one-sixth of the Earth’s land surface.
xV5O0 TIL that Bill Gates is making a genetically modified male mosquitoes with self-limiting gene to stop Malaria. During sex, the female mosquitoes will receive the self-limiting gene. This results in having their offspring die before reaching adulthood.
mnLy TIL we have doodles from an elementary school-aged child from the 13th century - including “battle scenes and drawings of himself and his teacher”