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TIL that Amazon has a serious problem with counterfeit products, and it's all because of something called "commingled inventory."

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ADvon TIL that while humans make up just 0.06 gigatons of the world's biomass (just 0.01%) they have destroyed over 450 gigatons of biomass over the pass 10,000 years.
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wLy6o TIL in the 60s, NASA gave dolphins LSD in an attempt to get them to speak. A female researcher lived in a partially submerged house with one of these dolphins. It would become sexually aroused and attack her, so she started giving it handjobs
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