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TIL that there is a global Sand crisis and that there is an actual Sand mafia.

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b9j4j TIL President Warren G. Harding once gambled away the entire White House china set in a card game
MeJ6m TIL Patterson found that amount of lead in shallow ocean water is 100x of deep. Patterson found the recent arrival of the large amount at the surface and found steady increase of lead in atmosphere due to gasoline and consumer products. Clean Air Act of 1986 passed all due to his prolonged efforts.
yQv9e TIL of Rope Memory where women would weave SOFTWARE by hand for the Apollo program
ADKad TIL a 2014 study found that you could increase the survival rate of a patient suffering with ARDS by 26% (The condition responsible for killing patients with Coronavirus) by simply having them lay on their stomach for 16-18hr a day while on ventilation.
kpQe TIL that bug zappers rarely kill biting insects, and are actually damaging to the ecosystem since they kill many predators and parasites that keep bug populations low