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TIL Oakley makes goggles with a HUD that tells you speed, elevation, jump dynamics, and links to your smartphone

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R57O6 TIL that sleeping babies who are dropped from a height will spread eagle to break their fall. This is called the Palmar reflex and is evidence to show that humans were once tree-dwellers.
MeBdm TIL: Loofahs don’t come from the sea. They’re gourds!
DQ0OY TIL that the official residence of the UK Prime Minister, 10 Downing St, originally started out as being numbered 5 Downing St and was not renumbered until 1779.
G5rQ TIL: The American company Segway sued a Chinese company for selling knockoff units, so the Chinese company acquired Segway.
xLvD TIL that if you grow an apple tree from an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to produce an apple entirely different than the one that produced the seed.