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TIL that 90% of all data ever created by human existence was generated in the last 2 years.

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m1V5E TIL that Limpets, the little conical sea snails found all over the world, develop "Homescars", their favorite places to sit on rocks, which is a little depression etched out of the surface of the solid rock from them frequenting that location.
dDkb8 TIL Neil Diamond wrote and released a top ten hit in 1982 inspired by the movie ET. The film studio sued him for copyright infringement and they settled for $25,000.
rRLwM TIL the actress who played Daisy Duke in "The Dukes of Hazzard", Catherine Bach, was required by network censors to wear flesh-toned tights under her Daisy Dukes
OoMv4 TIL that Poo-phoria occurs when your bowel movement stimulates the vagus nerve, which descends from the brain stem to the colon. It takes a particularly "large mass of stool" to trigger poo-phoria and its vagal-nerve-induced feelings of exhilaration, intense relaxation, and goose bumps.
nY9 TIL that the USA has the highest cancer survival rates of any developed country, despite no universal health care