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TIL IHunch is the name for a spinal issue caused by looking down at a phone or laptop for too long

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j65YE TIL the US National Park Service developed a rustic architectural style called "Parkitecture" to harmonize buildings with natural landscapes
nE5B TIL When the leading emergency asthma medication Albuterol’s patent expired, the patent holding pharmaceutical companies lobbied to have their own inhalers banned based on environmental issues, allowing them to file a new patent, and continue to monopolize the market.
5YmEB TIL that if you add 250ml of water to 250ml of alcohol, you get less than 500ml of liquid. This is due to strong hydrogen bonding between the different molecules drawing them close together, and that ethanol molecules are smaller than water molecules, so they fill in the spaces between the water.
9ooB TIL Martin van Buren was the first president born in the newly formed United States, but spoke Dutch as his first language.
ma6v TIL that in 2012 Mountan Dew cad a contest to name a new green apple flavored drink. 4chan picked up on this and skewed the contest. The winning submissions were “Hitler did nothing wrong” and “diabeetus”.