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TIL Water doesn't always boil at 100 degrees

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mxWgO TIL Bald eagles share parenting duties: The male and the female take turns incubating the eggs, and they both feed their young. They usually mate for life too.
WkLJL TIL of “Gay Bob”—one of the first homosexual dolls ever made. The anatomically-correct doll came out in the 1978 amid tons of controversy and was stored in a box made to look like a closet. Esquire awarded the toy the “Dubious Achievement Award” and the toy sold remarkably well throughout the year.
MeWDm TIL there are limestone mines beneath Paris that became an ossuary and final resting place for over six million people. During a cholera outbreak in the 1800’s over 170,000 people were hastily dumped in the catacombs and covered with quick lime to remove the flesh.
xOA0 TIL that Germany has one of the most progressive waste disposal systems in the world– in which nearly 70% of waste is recycled and most of the remainder is cleanly incinerated to generate power.
R7bw1 TIL that in 2006 DOT inspectors discovered a cold war era fallout shelter under the Brooklyn Bridge