TIL less than half (43%) of the cells in the body are human. The rest belong to microorganisms and bacteria.
https://www.voanews.com/a/research-estimates-we-are-only-about-43-percent-human/4932876.html
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TIL Brutus the Barber recounted a tale that Andre the Giant once had an emergency BM on a flight to Tokyo. Being too big to use the toilet, the crew improvised with a trash bag for him to use in a pinch but the smell filled the cabin leading to people puking, crying and falling out of seats.
https://www.cinemablend.com/wrestling/wwe-legend-shares-andre-the-giant-story-…
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TIL That David Schwimmer turned down the lead role in Men in Black
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TIL about the Island of the Dolls (La Isla de las Muñecas) in Mexico, where hundreds of decaying dolls hang from trees. The island’s caretaker, Don Julián Santana, believed he was haunted by a drowned girl’s spirit and began collecting dolls to appease her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_of_the_Dolls
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TIL The Netherlands "declared war" on the Isles of Scilly in 1651. A peace treaty was signed in 1986 after a historian informed the Dutch Embassy in London that the war was still technically ongoing. It lasted 335 years and not a single shot was fired.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Hundred_and_Thirty_Five_Years
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TIL That the 'Wedding Ring Effect' (the idea that women find men signalling engagement or having a partner more attractive) does not exist.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26190210/
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TIL "A True Story", the earliest known work of fiction to include travel to outer space, alien lifeforms, and interplanetary warfare, begins with an explanation that the story is not at all "true" and ends with a lie that their future adventures will be described in the upcoming sequels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gxcp27/til_a_true_story_the_earliest_known_work_of/
TIL Before 2022, it was unknown how eels reproduced
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TIL Microwaved food and liquids cool faster than conventional heating due to uneven heating of molecules.
https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/a22692/why-does-microwaved-food-cool-faster-15498643/
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TIL In 1949 Oregon state senator Dean Walker tried to ban popcorn from movie theaters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Walker
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TIL about the Korean Axe Murder Incident, occurring in the North & South Korean DMZ in 1976. Incensed at US troops trimming a historical tree, North Korean troops attacked, killing two US Army officers. Retaliating with an overwhelming show of force, US troops returned and chopped down the tree.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_axe_murder_incident
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gxaglv/til_about_the_korean_axe_murder_incident/
TIL: a site managers' poor attempt to unstuck a flatbed truck sent that truck rolling down a cliff where it blocked a railway tunnel entrance, just as an express train was barreling into the tunnel. 49 people died as the train hit the fallen truck, derailed, then hit the tunnel entrance head on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Hualien_train_derailment
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TIL the longest range gunnery hit in naval combat is 26,000 yards, shared between HMS Warspite against Giulio Cesare in July 1940 and Scharnhorst against HMS Glorious a month before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Warspite_(03)#Mediterranean_(1940%E2%80%931941)
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TIL that RATFUCKING is a slang term used by U.S. military personnel to describe the targeted pillaging of MREs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meal,_Ready-to-Eat#Ratfucking
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TIL during the filming of 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, it became a secret running joke between Tom Holland and Michael Keaton that Keaton would often whisper in a deep voice“I’m Batman” in Tom’s ear on set during a few fight scenes.
https://batman-news.com/2017/01/19/michael-keaton-im-batman-spider-man-homecoming/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gu3r9y/til_during_the_filming_of_2017s_spiderman/
TIL a study shows time passes 4 nanoseconds faster per day at the 450m-high Tokyo Skytree observation deck than at ground level. A University of Tokyo professor said clocks "will become tools for measuring time and space, such as differences in altitude, in line with the theory of relativity".
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13284896
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gtwpqo/til_a_study_shows_time_passes_4_nanoseconds/
TIL Christopher Langan-allegedly the ‘smartest person in the world’- is a fraud
https://youtu.be/SDmcoYpTTbE?si=w3zxJuOURquBa8Qj
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TIL that some people are born with their internal organs mirrored horizontally across their body, known as *Situs Inversus*. 🫀
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23486-situs-inversus
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TIL that the number of US federal government employees has hovered between approx. 2.7Mil and 3Mil since 1967. Lowering the per capita ratio from 1.5 employees per 100 people to 0.9 employees per 100 people.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES9091000001
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TIL Kangaroo and wallabies have 3 vaginas and 2 uterus.
https://grist.org/animals/kangaroo-genitals-are-weirder-than-you-ever-thought-possible-2/
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