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TIL that the persistence of certain hairstyles can be attributed to ‘hair memory’ - It’s a combination of protein structures and hydrogen bonds that gives hair its ability to recall its natural or frequently styled state.

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v057 TIL That lightning comes in two kinds known as “positive” and “negative”. Positive is the more destructive of the two but is believed to make up only 5% of lighting strikes.
6EP8 TIL the entire world population could be fit into the state of Texas and it would only have the population density of New York City.
NXg0M TIL that there are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the observable universe.
9Y5Or TIL Bright lights trigger the sneeze reflex. A 2017 German study points out that 57 percent of the country’s population will sneeze when looking at the sun or bright lights
ZJBo TIL that a baby in Poland was born with 23 times the legal BAC after his mom went on a drinking binge the night before