Today I Learned... Random selections from https://xitter.cf/t.co/9thqNdk3pB

Joined June 2017
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The mites that live on your face are related to ticks and spiders. They eat the oil from your skin, hide in your pores, have sex on your face while you sleep, and can tell researchers where your ancestors came from. npr.org/sections/health-shot…
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I added some numbers:
“The USA split into sections that have the same population as California.” reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comment…
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This is the Marigold, a moiré generating kinetic sculpture by artist Clayton Boyer [learn more: buff.ly/2urjy6s]
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There’s @tilbots which is quite random. Fake history hunter delves into sources behind history posts that go viral. There are many museums posting content, if you’ve seen any of the weekly hashtags for Curator Battles
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Catastrophe a writhing length of cobra, And the decline of empires the thick coil of a vast Anaconda.
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I am beautiful as a statistic. Here is my lipstick.
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Trawling your dark as owls do.
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When teething, baby hippos use crocodiles as chew toys roaring.earth/hippos-use-cro…
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Tengo la hipótesis de que todos nuestros sueños más perturbadores se materializan y toman forma en este plano como un Florida man. No tengo pruebas pero tampoco tengo dudas.
About Donald Watts, a Florida resident police received calls about and found rolling naked in a muddy ditch. After using 2 stun guns with no effect they called for backup among which was a K9 unit who was ordered to engage Watts but Watts managed to gra... newsweek.com/florida-man-nud…
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Replying to @tilbots
Well this explains my whole fucking life.
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Replying to @tilbots
Link is broken, think you're looking for this one: aa.co.za/aa-armed-response
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The Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the Milky Way at about 110 kilometres per second (68 miles per second) and the Andromeda galaxy will collide with the Milky Way about 4 billion years from now. nature.com/news/andromeda-on…
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Flamingos can drink near-boiling water from geysers - they live in a high-salt environment, and this is often the freshest source of water available seaworld.org/animals/all-abo…
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Coltan mining. The Tantalum extracted from it is considered to be technology critical and found in a lot of modern electronics. Mining Coltan has financed conflict in the Congo for decades and is thought to have caused more than 5 million deaths as a re... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantal…
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Whales can't breathe involuntarily. If you anesthetize one, it will suffocate, even out of the water. nautil.us/issue/47/conscious…
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In 2004, Forbes named J.K. Rowling the first person to become a billionaire (in US dollars) from writing books. By 2012, she had donated so much money to charity that they had to remove her from the rich list because she was no longer a billionaire. nzherald.co.nz/books/news/ar…
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3 men found hot metal cylinders in a forest and used them to warm themselves over night. They had found soviet Strontium-90 sources, suffered severe radiation sickness and long term injuries. www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Public…
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