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TIL that the Titanic was the place of discovery for tiny iron eating microbes. These microbes form icicle-shaped “rusticles.” Which consists of 35% iron compounds and a community of symbiontic microbes and fungi. “Halomonas titanicae” is expected to dissolve the Titanic by 2045.

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PYN0O [TIL] about the GIANT murder hornet that has recently been seen in the US and UK. It has a 75mm (2.95 in) wingspan and a 6mm (0.25 in) stinger. They hunt in packs and can kill humans,. if you're unlucky, their stings cause necrosis (your flesh dies while you are alive.).
rRr7x TIL: That I am part of 18-35 %of the population who sneeze when looking at bright light after being in a darker environment. It's caused by an appropriately named disorder called ACHOO.
oRDAL TIL that in 1864, a war was fought over bat poop. In the Chincha Islands War, Spain fought with Peru over control of a group of islands covered in bat poop up to 100 feet thick. Guano, when dried, was used as the one of the main ingredients of saltpeter, an early important component of gunpowder.
rNaex TIL Astrophysicist Jonathan Lane was the first to demonstrate with math that the Sun is a body of gas, in his 1870 book "On the Theoretical Temperature of the Sun". Lane’s law states that as a gaseous body contracts, the contraction generates heat
WkndL TIL that the Michigan DOT has names for every one of their snowplows along with mounted cameras and a tracking map so you can track your favorite plow as the season progresses