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TIL that you likely have thousands of mites living on your face right now. The males crawl out of your pores at night to find a female and have sex on your face.

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GY9bJ TIL about the Misericorde - the 'Mercy Knife', which was a long narrow dagger used for killing wounded soldiers at the end of a battle. It was considered better than dying in pain from infection or from wounds which were not instantly fatal.
V9PQ TIL Timon & Pumbaa were the original singers of ‘Can You Feel The Love Tonight’ from “The Lion King.” Elton John hated it and adjusted it to the more romantic version heard in the film.
n9lr TIL Japanese automated toilets can “cause excessive cleanliness, prompting other bacteria to adhere around the anus…”
yZaX TIL the reason a Blu-Ray disc holds 5x more data than a DVD is because a blue laser has a lower wavelength than a red one, which means it can read and write data more precisely, much like writing with a ballpoint pen instead of a crayon.
KO04G Protons are made up of even smaller particles called quarks, so you might expect that simply adding up the quarks’ masses should give you the proton’s mass. However, that sum is much too small to explain the proton’s bulk. And new, detailed calculations show that only 9 percent of the proton’s heft comes from the mass of constituent quarks. The rest of the proton’s mass comes from complicated effects occurring inside the particle, researchers report in the Nov. 23 Physical Review Letters.