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TIL last year we found 1,458 new species of bacteria living in the bellybutton, everyone’s bellybutton ecology is unique like a fingerprint, and one volunteer’s belly button harbored bacteria that had previously been found only in soil from Japan, where he had never been.

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GPKG TIL a man named Jerry Gretzinger has been drawing a map of an imaginary world for over 50 years. He draws from a deck of cards each morning to decide the fate of his hand-drawn world, which is over 2000 square feet in size.
8XVX TIL Ballooning is a behavior in which spiders use their silk to lift themselves up in the air, using the wind to move between locations. Some spiders can move for up to 25 days or longer while traveling high up into the upper atmosphere.
Mbvb TIL: The Hitlers were early pioneers of southern Ohio. Including local dentist Dr. Gay Hitler.
7w4r TIL the 1556 Shaanxi earthquake is considered by scientists the greatest natural disaster in human history with 830,000 deaths.
VB0Jm TIL the battle of Normandy was actually named Operation Overlord, with the launch assault at the beaches of Normandy, commonly referred to as D-Day, formally called operation Neptune