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TIL the human eye has its own microbiome.

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PnNe TIL Ancient Egyptian families would mourn the death of a family cat by shaving off their eyebrows. The cat was embalmed with a sculpted wooden mask and the tiny mummy was placed in the family tomb or in a pet cemetery with tiny mummies of mice.
ErrV TIL an iron pillar in Delhi(made of 98% wrought iron) has stood for at least 1600 years without rusting or corroding.
7dlp TIL that in Queensland the age of consent for anal sex is 18, while it’s 16 for all other sexual activities.
j6KmX TIL The official "Fastest Escape from a Regulated Posey Straitjacket" is 2.84 seconds, set by Danilo Audiello at the Studio Fleming Medicina Generale, Foggia, Italy, on 11 August 2014.
9YPe6 TIL that when Laurence Fishburne who played Morpheus in the Matrix Trilogy used to get regularly approached by fans asking if he was really "Morpheus" he would respond with "You think that's air? you're breathing now"