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TIL that more than 30% of Indonesian children smoke a cigarette before the age of 10, thanks to Big Tobacco deliberately targeting youth in developing countries

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neYAP TIL in ancient times some inuit people did not have access to enough wood for their sleds and often used frozen fish wrapped in skins in place of runners. They used blocks of ice to reduce drag.
VM75m TIL of Marty Irby who spoke out against soring TN Walking Horses: caustic stuff & weights are put on legs; a horse throws its leg in the air reacting to the pain which trains the horse for The Big Lick high-stepping. Irby got death threats & even his wife left him for taking a stance against soring.
gMoJb TIL the first hostile aerial bombardment on U.S. soil happened in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when white police forces took to the air to drop incendiary bombs and dynamite on the business district in the black neighborhood of Greenwood, known at the time as the "Black Wall Street."
e0bQ4 TIL that Kobe Bryant helped develop the first prototypes of Hypervolt Pro, a massage gun which has become popular with pro athletes over the past several years. It allows players to treat their muscles while resting on the bench during the game.
EgKno TIL the San Diego-Coronado Bridge is the 2nd most used bridge for suicide in the US trailing only the Golden Gate Bridge.