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TIL old batteries contained cadmium, a toxic heavy metal. These batteries should not be disposed of in regular household trash at the end of their life.

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Oo1G7 TIL about Joe Kieyoomia, an American POW who survived the Bataan Death March, three years of brutal torture in a concentration camp, and the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
oD8K TIL that three bodies were found in a storage room on the USS West Virginia when she was re-floated after Pearl Harbor. A calendar kept by the men indicated that they had survived for over two weeks after the attack.
yVBY8 TIL all humans alive on the planet today are related to a single individual who lived as recently as a few thousand years ago, according to the most realistic scientific models to find the "Most Recent Common Ancestor"
G5A4 TIL: An Italian tradition, now spreading, of caffè sospeso (suspended coffee) where people can pay for coffees on top of their own so the less well off can have a cup too.
Oo1ge TIL Mushrooms are the only non-animal food with Vitamin D and their vitamin D levels can be increased by placing them in the sun, just like humans