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TIL that shaving your head doesn't make the hair grow back thicker and darker. Cutting the blunt tip just looks coarser; the follicle’s growth rate and color stay the same.

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Dj8j TIL of the Dyatlov Pass Incident. The mysterious unsolved death of 9 hikers who tore through their tents naked in sub-0 temperatures. 7 died of hypothermia, one of a fractured skull, one female team member had her tongue and eyes missing. Offical cause of death: “unknown compelling force”
MB00 TIL of “Unsinkable” Sam, a sailor during WWII who survived the sinking of the Bismarck, switched sides to the Allies, then survived the sinking of both the HMS Cossack and the HMS Ark Royal. Unsinkable Sam is also a cat.
4k0a5 TIL That the world record for internet speed is 402 terabits per second which would enable you to download 12500 movies in 1 second. This is approximately 4.3m times faster than the global average of 93mbps.
rRXye TIL that the US also had concentration camps like germany during WW2 for Japanese Americans and so called Aleuts. They were forced to live in barely humane conditions in cramped shacks without plumbing or cooking facilities, while they also burned down some of the villages of the imprisioned.
E4rd TIL Bob Barker is Macklemore’s step grandfather