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TIL that manmade air pollution is the cause of more than two million deaths every year globally

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epy94 TIL a finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company's CFO in a video conference call that included several other members of staff, all of whom were in fact deepfake recreations. Everyone he saw was fake.
9W4m TIL that “if an apple is magnified to the size of the earth, then the atoms in the apple are approximately the size of the original apple.”
DpeD TIL Kurt Vonnegut tried to sue a Tobacco company because the packaging promised to kill him and he was 83 years old and they had not fulfilled this promise yet.
KO4p9 TIL: Pink Himalayan Salt Doesn't Come From India or the Himalayas. It's mostly mined in Pakistan
BrXGy TIL the equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).