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TIL that back in 1916 you could buy a home through Sears for as little as $600.

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R7gJQ TIL author Ed Abbey’s last wishes were for friends to transport his body in a pickup truck, foregoing undertakers, embalming or coffin in favor of an old sleeping bag and disregarding all laws concerning burial. He was laid to rest at a secret location in Arizona’s Cabeza Prieta desert.
vPPm8 TIL that the United States is the world's biggest food product exporter by far, valuing at around $90 billion annually.
5Yj1p TIL In 2019 just 20 polymer producers accounted for more than half of all single-use plastic waste generated globally and the top 100 accounted for 90 per cent.
E1A10 TIL Gold's yellow color and inertness are explained by Einstein’s theory of relativity. Gold's electrons travel so close to the speed of light that relativity contracts some of their orbits. This shrinks an energy gap so it absorbs blue light, and makes the outer electron less reactive.
ZE9B TIL that there is a form of synesthesia (a psychological condition that results in sensory ‘mixing’) called spacio-temporal synesthesia, in which people can perceive time as a spacial concept.