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TIL Melitta Bentz created the coffee filter using paper from her son's school notebook

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PY99Z TIL all alcoholic drinks sold in the United States are required to be mildly radioactive. If alcohol is made in a lab it won't have any radioactive signature but alcohol made from plants will always be slightly radioactive due to the background radiation in the air and ground.
8eL8L TIL[nt] about the only word in English with a silent v: Milngavie, a Scottish town.
m1d4Y TIL: 42% of Americans believe in ghosts and 18% believe they had a paranormal experience according a 2009 Pew Research. In recent years, there has been a rise in Queer Ghost Hunters across several states looking for queer ghosts to record the ghost's stories.
69A7w TIL There were Allied POWs in Nagasaki & Hiroshima during the bombings
nedrb TIL the Teletubbies are canonically racially diverse and they live in the "Tubbytronic Superdome"