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TIL of Chiara Vigo, who is the only person alive who knows how to make silk from the highly endangered Noble Pen Shell clam

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g8ry TIL a woman attacked her husband when she found “disgusting pornography” in his car. By which she meant “copies of The Onion”.
16l78 TIL Scarlet Fever still exists and it's strep throat with a rash...
bmpQ TIL that in the 1830’s the Crow Nation had a female chief who was a hunter, horse-rider and warrior and that she took four women as wives.
0onM TIL: Plant seeds “know” to grow upwards by sensing gravity. When planted in a spinning wheel, their roots will be tricked by the centrifugal force and grow outwards from the soil
dDm8B TIL the last elementary particle that we know to exist was discovered in 2012 at the CERN in Switzerland, using the Large Hadron Collider. It's called the Higgs boson and it's the particle responsible for "assigning" a mass to other elementary particles.