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TIL most chewing gum contains plastic.

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ANxll TIL that stenocereus eruca AKA creeping devil lies down on the ground and grows on one end while the other slowly dies, it can also clone itself in isolation and lack of pollinating creatures, all of which have allowed it to create massive “colonies” on the coast of Baja California Sur
X0O58 TIL that The Doors were the first act to advertise music using billboards
J1vOQ TIL that Gwenyth Paltrow once endorsed the practice of steam cleaning your vagina where “you sit on what is essentially a mini throne, and a combination of infrared and mugwort steam cleanses your uterus”. There has been no evidence that steam cleaning has any benefits.
98Lp TIL from 1991 to 2000, 90% of the worlds LSD was produced by one man
VdP4 TIL that during the 1890 census, Minneapolis and St. Paul kidnapped each other’s census takers to keep either city from outgrowing the other.