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TIL your skin gets slippery when you accidentally touch bleach because you just made soap by breaking down top layer of your skin

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N6MJ TIL When Jimmy Carter was a young Nuclear officer in the US Navy, they sent him to help a partial meltdown in a Canadian nuclear reactor. They built an exact copy of the reactor to train with, then lowered him into the still extremely radioactive reactor to take it apart one piece at a time.
KYVg6 TIL that even with an orbital velocity of 490,000 MPH, the sun has only circled the Milky Way 18-20 times.
XWY8 TIL Brad Pitt’s younger brother, Douglas Pitt, is the first American to have scaled Mount Kilimanjaro and descended on a mountain bike.
NL4N TIL that no new malls have been built in the United States since 2006 and 15% of U.S. malls will fail within the next 10 years
woLK1 TIL of the Cantalloc Aqueducts in Peru. Built by the Nazca between 200-900, there are over 30 aqueducts, many of which are still functional and are essential for irrigating local fields