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TIL last year a news team ordered aluminum pots from seven different Amazon and Etsy retailers and found measurably dangerous amounts of lead in six of them

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X0MoQ TIL that on 1896, two dudes named Harbo and Samuelson, became the first people ever to row across the North Atlantic Ocean. Their record held for over a HUNDRED years, until a FOUR person team beat it in 2010.
R75k6 TIL that before the Han-Liu War, a 1932 battle between opposing warlords for the Shandong province, many of Liu's soldiers brought their own coffins to the battle because they expected to fight to the death.
WkvYN TIL, YMCA help invent Basketball, Volleyball and Racquetball
OG4Xg TIL the original the first Disneyland was managed and brought to reality by two Stanford graduates named Woody & Buzz, who ironically did not serve as the inspiration for Pixar's Toy Story
4XYp6 TIL - In Milwaukee, it is a Christmas tradition to eat raw ground beef and onions on rye bread