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Today I learned artic researcher have freezers to keep their icecream warm.

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Br0kb TIL the second ingredient of Campbell’s Tomato Soup is high fructose corn syrup. So much for nostalgia, but welcome to my drain, sugar-soup!
yQG8w TIL that the original Volkswagon Beetle would temporarily float on water because of a sealed steel bottom with nothing exposed beneath it. Volkswagen even created a 1972 television commercial which demonstrated its ability to float. It sold for $1999 US dollars (roughly equivalent to 12k today).
1a9PO TIL that during the Danish Colonization of Greenland, missionary Hans Egede found that local Inuit had no concept for what bread was and so he changed the Lord’s Prayer to say “Give us this day our daily seal”.
78a0P TIL that a man accidentally got shot in the head by a particle accelerator back in 1978 and is still alive
ZpvyD TIL about a quarter of the registered hosts on Airbnb own nearly two thirds of the listings. Wealthy users buying multiple houses to rent out is a significant contributor to the current housing crisis.