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TIL Concrete absorbs carbon dioxide from the air.

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9wboB TIL muscles “bank” extra nuclei, making your comeback faster.
DMZe TIL a translator for the European Commission in Brussels knows 32 languages including Greek, English, German, Italian, Russian, East African Swahili, Hebrew, Arabic, Mandarin and Bengali, plus some dead languages like Old Church Slavic.
VMbd0 TIL that the Olympic Rings logo represents Earth's five continents and the colors of the rings, with the white background, were chosen because those colors could make every country's flag as each existed in 1915.
XyE8 TIL that despite common misconception, ice worms are a real species that tunnel through glaciers. If their body temperature exceeds 5 degrees celsius they melt.
Z4Lv TIL that Mozart composed a song titled “Lick Me in the Ass”.