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TIL Many spices contain significant levels of heavy metals like lead and arsenic, with no clear indicator of safety by brand name, country of origin, or organic status

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wxgE TIL that after the death of Alexander the Great, the architect Dinocrates proposed to have the entirety of Mount Athos carved in the general’s likeness.
OGYb4 TIL when a coal waste pile collapsed onto the Welsh village of Aberfan in 1966, school lunch lady Nansi Williams saw the disaster coming and flung herself onto five schoolchildren to shield them from the avalanche. All five children survived, but Nansi did not.
N7W96 TIL of Aeroplankton, the atmospheric analogue to oceanic plankton that deposit many millions of airborne viruses and bacteria every day on every square meter around the planet.
oBK9r TIL that the United States Postal Service has about 1,700 employees in Utah who read anything that the automated systems can't read like illegible addresses. About 5 million pieces of mail are read at this location daily. Seasoned employees generally average about 1,600 addresses read per hour.
OoXE7 TIL that the lowest/one of the lowest points on earth is Laguna del Carbón in Santa Cruz, Argentina