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TIL that acidic algae makes fish toxic and kills tons of dolphins and whales every day

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0w0KN TIL award winning film critic Roger Ebert created the Boulder Pledge. A commitment to never buy anything offer from spam email or to forward spam or chain emails.
xVpMw TIL - Humans are one of few mammals that don't have a penis bone.
epjWk TIL The Smoot-Hawley Act raised tariffs to the second highest in U.S. History in 1930, prompting retaliatory tariffs by other countries. causing exports and imports to decline by 2/3. Economists and economic historians have agreed that the Act worsened the Great Depression.
awr9Z TIL after JFK was assassinated, the Soviet KGB immediately began looking into Vice President Johnson suspecting a coup, and after some intel wok some reported "possession of data purporting to indicate that President Johnson was responsible."
GYL0j TIL: There are frameworks being researched for “mind uploading” the functioning human brain to a synthetic substrate related to the development of neural prosthetic technologies—raising concerns, as noted, about beliefs of continuity of identity. pdf