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TIL that, on average, we each have about 0.2mg of gold in our body.

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xwZk TIL that nobody other than its owners really know who owns IKEA. Parts of it are owned by multiple shell corporations, and many of the stores themselves are technically owned by a non-profit charitable organization and thus do not pay taxes on their income.
xVneD TIL why radar side lobes are detrimental to radar accuracy. They allow echos and jamming to be received by the radar antenna despite the fact they do not come from the direction the antenna is pointed to. Once received, there is no simple way of distinguishing them from the wanted signals.
Br1re TIL humans are the sweatiest primates alive. We have up to five million sweat glands producing a maximum of three gallons of sweat per day. The production of sweat glands is inversely related to the production of hair, and the evolutionary loss of our hair is connected to our success as a species.
P10AJ TIL that woolly mammoth proteins were just recently directly imaged for the first time. A scientist used an electron microscope to image the collagen protein of mammoth bone at the molecular level.
xwND TIL That whether or not Judges have recently eaten may significantly impact their decisions to grant or deny parole.