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TIL that in 1632, Massachusetts banned smoking in public.
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TIL about Francis Marion, an American Patriot in SC who attacked British supply lines and harassed enemy communications then eluded capture through the swamps.
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TIL that if you add 250ml of ethanol to 250ml of water, you get less than 500ml of liquid. This is due to strong hydrogen bonding that draws the different molecules close together, and because ethanol interferes with any open structures in the water, causing the molecules to pack closer together.
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TIL Humans are the most plentiful mammal species on Earth 🌍 🌎 🌏
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TIL the "artificial banana flavour" we know today tastes more like the type of banana that was the main variety up until the 1950's, when it was wiped out by a fungus.
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TIL G.H Hardy came up with a scale of mathematical ability that went from 0 to 100. He put himself at 25. David Hilbert, the great German mathematician, was at 80. Ramanujan was 100. When he died in 1920 at the age of 32, he left behind three notebooks that still inspire mathematical work today