Today I learned 5 hours ago

TIL that the average person’s belly button hosts about 67 different species of bacteria, and a study of 66 people identified over 2,300 species in total.

Belly Button Biodiversity

Citizen scientists navigate ‘the intimate forests of the umbilicus.’

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Today I learned 5 hours ago

TIL that the U.S. uses the 13th Amendment loophole to force incarcerated people into work, producing over $11 billion in goods & services while they earn pennies per hour and often lose most pay to fees.

Penal labor in the United States - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 6 hours ago

TIL a survey involving more than 1,000 people found that one in three (37%) UK shoppers admitted to stealing at least one item when using self-checkouts. In addition, 38% of shoppers admitted to having put through loose items incorrectly, a tactic known within the industry as "the banana trick".

Yahoo News

One in three shoppers ‘admits to stealing from self-checkouts’

More than a third of shoppers admit to stealing from self-checkouts amid fears that the technology is worsening Britain’s shoplifting crisis.

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Today I learned 6 hours ago

TIL that 44% of the world's adult population has never consumed alcohol

Teetotalism - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 7 hours ago

TIL the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii can repeatedly revert to its young form, effectively avoiding death

Turritopsis dohrnii - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 7 hours ago

TIL a farmer cut off his own leg with a 4-inch pocket knife to free himself from a grain auger. After his leg got stuck, he kept getting pulled in deeper & deeper and with nobody around to help, he had to cut off his leg before time ran out. He then crawled 150 feet to a landline to call for help.

ABC News

Nebraska farmer recounts sawing off his leg with a pocket knife to save his own life

Kurt Kaser says the accident occurred on his Nebraska farm on April 26.

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Today I learned 7 hours ago

TIL that, in video games, "ludonarrative dissonance" is the technical name for the conflict between the story told in the gameplay, and the story in the non-interactive scenes (for example, the way that Drake in "Uncharted" is a fun-loving rogue in the cutscenes but a killing machine in the game).