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today i learned that a coin flip isn't 50/50 but 51/49

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5VnM9 TILL Toy Breeds Of Dog Were Favorite Amongst Ancient Romans And Greeks. They Generally Led A Noble Life With Greater Human Care
b9lWp TIL as recently as 2014, almost 30 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 1 in 3 wild boars in Germany are still too radioactive for humans to consume. In fact, some are more than 15 times the legal limit and the contamination is thought to originate nearly 700 miles away.
p81bG TIL Tsar Peter the Great put a special tax on men who grew beards
X0Z1D TIL The movie Footloose was inspired by a real ban on dancing in Elmore City Oklahoma that made dancing in public illegal from the 1800s until 1979.
1NpP TIL Microbeads, the little abrasive beads in found in soap products, are so dangerous to the environment they’ve been banned in the US