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TIL that boiling water can remove microplastics

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wLmkM TIL Toshiba developed micro-nuclear reactor to power a standard home for 40 years at 5 cents per kilowatt hour, about half the cost of grid energy.
9wNPp TIL that in 1961, two hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped in a tobacco field in North Carolina. One was set to safety and the other one just didn’t go off by sheer luck.
JD5k TIL At a depth of almost a mile, Lake Baikal in Russia is the deepest lake in the world. It is also the clearest and oldest lake while containing 20% of the worlds fresh water.
xVmaD TIL that fortune cookies were invented in the United States
woJk1 TIL that bones can bleed and bruise just like skin; I banged my toe against a brick wall and did some deep research after.