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TIL a study showed we are ingesting an amount of microplastics equivalent to the weight of a credit card each week. That is roughly 5 grams

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b6Oe4 TIL that tobacco smoke enemas were so accepted as a resuccitation treatment for drowning in 1700's Europe that emergency smoke enema kits were placed next to the River Thames in London. Doubts about the utility might also be the source of the expression about "blowing smoke up your ass."
MPn0 TIL - from 1961 to 1993, the only non-Navy man to become president was Ronald Reagan.
AOA7 TIL NASA’s Eagleworks lab is currently running a real warp drive experiment for proof of concept. The location of the facility is the same one that was built for the Apollo moon program
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ygYX TIL Bubble Wrap was first conceived in 1957 as a sort of high-end wallpaper