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4gg6 TIL that Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t celebrate birthdays because the only two accounts of birthday parties in the Bible resulted in murder
loY7B TIL: 90% of the plastic in the ocean comes from 10 rivers: The Yangtze, Indus, Yellow, Hai, Nile, Ganges, Pearl, Heilong, Niger, and Mekong rivers
grYv4 TIL that 'Brinicles' occur when newly formed sea ice pushes it's impurities out at extremely low temperatures. It instantly freezes surrounding sea ice and any unlucky creatures nearby when it reaches the sea floor.
M7g00 Today I learned that the Gemini 3 space crew, John Young and Gus Grissom, smuggled a corned beef sandwich into space
5VKaB TIL: The Allies raided a Nazi chemical company in 1944 and interrogated a chemist due to the amount of radioactive material involved. However, they learned that he was not working on nukes, but radioactive toothpaste known as Duramad, using radiation to kill germs. Some samples are in a museum now.