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E10OV TIL: the sun does not provide vitamin D. It synthesizes the vitamin D already in your body.
GYW7Q TIL Two weeks before the Castle Gate Mine disaster that killed 171 men, the Utah Fuel Company laid off many of the miners without dependents during a shortage of coal sales. As a result, 114 of the men killed in the disaster were married men and left behind 415 widows and fatherless children
BBZb TIL that Yuma, Arizona is the sunniest place in the United States and one of the sunniest in the world.
xV7Bw TIL that the "China" that actually helped found the UN and sat on the Security Council until 1971 was the Taiwanese government. After this they started losing a lot of international recognition.
kJOP7 TIL that Catallus 16 was a poem that was not publically translated completely until the mid 20th century due to it being deemed to vulgar and obscene for the modern era