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TIL Concrete absorbs carbon dioxide from the air.
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TIL that Laika is not the first animal to travel into space. The title actually goes to a bunch of fruit flies aboard a V2 rocket launched in 1947. They were later recovered alive.
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TIL the Taft-Hartley Act prohibits jurisdictional strikes, wildcat strikes, solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass picketing, closed shops, and monetary donations by unions to federal political campaigns
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TIL Disney produced an educational film in 1946 called The Story of Menstruation that was the first production ever to use the word vagina
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TIL Of two brothers named Winner and Loser. Winner became a lifetime criminal. Loser became a detective in the NYPD.
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TIL in Russia many doctors “treat” alcoholism by surgically implanting a small capsule into their patients. The capsules react so severely with alcohol that once the patient touches a single drop, they instantly acquire an excruciating illness of similar intensity to acute heroin withdrawal