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TIL Teflon was introduced by DuPont in nonstick cookware in 1946 and was the very “forever chemical.” These types of chemicals are linked to many diseases, never break down in the environment, and are now present in the blood of nearly every American adult and newborn baby.

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OoKa TIL Charles Manson’s mother once sold him to a waitress for a pitcher of beer. His uncle retrieved him some days later.
DJQr TIL in 1992, 28000 rubber ducks fell off a shipping container in the Pacific and revolutionized our understanding of ocean circulation
D1YVV TIL the military under Richard Nixon was ordered not to react to any orders from the president due to his depression.
R649 TIL Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, was able to view his obituary before he died due to a news-outlet mishap. Due to all the horrible things he read about himself, including being called “the merchant of death”, he decided to dedicate his fortune to the creation of the Nobel Prize.
M7GaB TIL in 2018, Scientists identified the earliest known animal in the geological record as a 558-million-year-old oval-shaped creature known as Dickinsonia that may have borne a superficial resemblance to a segmented jellyfish.