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TIL that touching receipts absorbs large amounts of BPA, a known endocrine disruptor, into your bloodstream

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OM44 TIL that even today, 68 years after the end of WWII, barely a week goes by without an unexploded bomb from WWII being found somewhere in Germany.
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