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TIL The Earth Is Running Out of Sand, Spurring a Cutthroat Black Market

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D1DGv TIL Penicillin is an accidental discovery. Fleming returned from a two-week vacation to find that a mold had developed on an accidentally contaminated staphylococcus culture plate. Upon examination of the mold, he noticed that the culture prevented the growth of staphylococci.
l79La TIL about America's first Olympics in 1904 where, during the marathon athletes drank poison, dodged traffic, stole peaches and hitchiked!
BoDD TIL that “pig toilets” (combination toilets/feeding troughs) were once common in China and western India.
R7Qj TIL more people have orbited around the moon (24) than have pitched a perfect game (23)
neBeG TIL that while the first state to pass a speed limit law happened in 1901 and limited the legal speed of motor vehicles to 12 mph in cities and 15 mph on country roads, the first motor vehicle to actually get a ticket was in a 2 mph zone.