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TIL there is an ISO standard for making tea.

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wbO8 TIL after hurricane Katrina, many residents had to throw out their refrigerators due to the decomposing food becoming so toxic that it melted plastic, corroded metal, and ate through the rubber door lining.
9YQpX TIL In their most productive week, the Pixar team animated 3½ minutes of the film Toy Story (1995)
P10PE TIL roughly 115 million years ago in the time of dinosaurs, a little 5cm mushroom from Gondwana fell in a river, journeyed to a highly saline lagoon, sank down, down, thru the water. Was covered in layer upon layer of fine sediment. Becoming Gondwanagaricites magnificus, the oldest fossil mushroom
4RY5 TIL when burning pressure treated wood, not only is the smoke toxic, but the ash produced is so toxic that a tablespoon of it can kill a full grown man.
KeKG TIL that mooning is legal in Maryland. After a neighbor dispute ended in one of the parties dropping his drawers, a judge ruled that while ‘disgusting’ the moon did not break the law.