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Today I learned Afrin addiction was a thing.

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rRWjx TIL that bananas are slightly radioactive due to certain caesium isotopes. Therefore you should never eat more than 600 bananas per second to minimze the risk of a harmful radiation dose.
9nPm TIL in Boston a wife and her unborn child were robbed and killed. The surviving husband gave the vague description of the assailant as “a black man with a husky voice” throwing the city into a police state of racial unrest. It later emerged the white husband killed them for the insurance money.
OGGke TIL there are two ATM machines in all of Antarctica (at the McMurdo Station), but only one of them works. The 'broken' one is only there to "cannibalize, if you will, for parts or spare things that they need to make the other one live and operational."
v1AOr TIL that 51% of American men between 18 and 29 are single. By contrast, only 32% of women in the same group are single.
X0onk TIL that Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda hosted a wrap-party for their 1969 film “Easy Rider”, before realizing that they forgot to shoot the final campfire scene. The motorcycles used in the film were previously stolen from set, which is why they’re not visible in the final campfire scene.