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TIL that bioluminescence is one of the most common and least understood forms of communication on Earth.

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yR4M TIL America’s obesity rate has gone from 13 percent (1965) to 36 percent (2010)
d8VYd TIL alcohol breath is not from the stomach, rather it's from the ethanol diffusing out of the blood in the lungs. Eating food, chewing gum, or vomiting won't help mask how much alcohol is in your system if you're breathalyzed
aYkA TIL: New Zealand’s prime minister John Key went to a vet to see if he was a human and not a shape shifting lizard.
V49B TIL that the Spartans were historically known to deliver badass one-liners which were dubbed as “Laconic Phrases”
16PW TIL that Tim Duncan wanted to swim in the olympics and only decided to play basketball after the only swimming pool on his island was destroyed by a hurricane.