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TIL employment in Antartica requires you get rid of your wisdom teeth and your appendix before joining

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a94Z TIL the precedent set in the Supreme Court case of Wickard v Filburn (which allows the government to stabilize the market by destroying excess food) was used in Gonzales v. Raich to give the federal government the power to criminalize medicinal marijuana despite state laws which may make it legal
Wkyno TIL: A single serving of cooking spray is considered to be so small that it can be called “fat free”. That implies that an entire can filled with nothing but oil has no calories.
VMWyB All contagious diseases are infectious, but not all infectious diseases are contagious. Contagious diseases are infectious diseases that are easily spread through contact with other people.
4Xlyo TIL that Frederic I Barbarrosa drowned in a river in Turkey when his army was heading to Jerusalem.
e08Rn TIL That Darwin was apprehensive to publish his work on evolution. He did not publish until 20 years after he wrote his theory, and may have never published if not for the publicized research of Alfred Russel Wallace.