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TIL most tobacco products contain radioactive material in the final product.

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OGMK1 TIL a dozen intersex athletes competed in the Olympics, usually discovered after the onset of sex verification testing
9YwNX TIL about the Great Filter, a theory that suggests the reason we haen't found life in space is because they don't pass through a part of their evolution known as the Great Filter, which wipes out the species. Worse, humans won't know if we pass through the filter until it'd be too late to save us.
1Vp8 TIL In the late Devonian period (during the evolution of terrestrial plants), there was a ‘wood crisis’. Trees became abundant, took CO2 out of the air, and caused an ice age, simply because the fungi that eventually would decompose dead wood & return the CO2 to the air hadn’t evolved yet.
RMe9 TIL Dexter Holland from The Offspring is a Ph.D candidate at USC and is working on his dissertation on RNA in HIV & Cancer.
4Pk5 TIL that, starting during their golden age in the early 17th century, the Dutch had a monopoly on trade with Japan that lasted until 1854. During this time, the Dutch were Japan’s only source of information on the Western world.