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TIL That there are beauty pageants that focus on natural beauty and love from ones community

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69YXY TIL: Baby swim diapers don't absorb any urine
xDr0 TIL that Marie Curie and her daughter Irène between them received half of all the Physics and Chemistry Nobel Prizes awarded to women
WkA98 TIL that during a flight of the Hindenburg over the UK a parcel was thrown overboard and found in West Yorkshire. It contained flowers, a small silver Cross, and a note requesting they be delivered to a passenger's brother's grave
d8Oe7 TIL the human body literally glows, emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day, scientists now reveal. Past research has shown that the body emits visible light, 1,000 times less intense than the levels to which our naked eyes are sensitive.
QJKEL TIL salt needs water to effectively melt ice, and also is rendered nearly useless in temperatures below 15 degrees F. If roads are treated with salt in your area, don’t assume there won’t be any ice.