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TIL Cold showers are more beneficial than hot showers.

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WkNYB TIL after slavery in the United States was outlawed by the 13th Amendment in 1865, the Abolitionist newspaper The Liberator reorganized itself as a general news magazine and is now known as The Nation.
woYgo TIL There are a total of 129 streets named after former US President JFK in the country of Brazil. The US only has 35 streets named after him.
88jX TIL Robert Englund, AKA Freddie Kruger, recommended to Mark Hamill that he audition for the role of Luke Skywalker
Gbe7 TIL Private companies are now providing trained birds of prey to take down hostile drones and protect their clients’ airspace
Lkylp TIL that Plutonium is so toxic that if 500g of plutonium dust released into the air, it would be sufficient to kill nearly 2 million people. It is just due to heavy metal poison effects, not radioactivity. This makes the toxicity of plutonium roughly equivalent to that of nerve gas.