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TIL NASA offers $17000 for people willing to lay in bed for 3 Months

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4XjPg TIL that the last surviving Woolly Mammoths lived on an isolated island in the Arctic Ocean until just 2000 BC, not long after the construction of the Giza Pyramids
5YNL8 TIL Islam has an ancient and allowable form of contraceptive called 'azl. In English it means to pull out before ejaculation.
dDN6Z TIL that in Victorian Britain, arsenic-laced paint used in wallpaper was so common that doctors warned that “a great deal of slow poisoning is going on,” as toxic pigments turned home décor into a silent killer.
Wx5B TIL the shouting at the begining of “The Lion King” is Zulu for “Here comes a lion, father” and “Oh yes, it’s a lion”
6dwQ TIL The idea of carrots improving eyesight was RAF propaganda to hide from the Nazis the fact they had new radar technology