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TIL that it’s someone’s job to ride ahead of the Tour de France and erase all of the dick graffiti before the race arrives and gets shown on camera

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7rjmM TIL smokers are at a high risk of having sagging skin after weight loss. The reason being, smoking causes reduced collagen synthesis and damages existing collagen
BJ9d TIL that on the EXACT same night the great Chicago fire began (which claimed 300 victims), a much larger fire claimed over 1,000 in Peshtigo WI.
Oo0wY TIL scientists created a mouse colony that started with 4 males and 4 females. The colony peaked at 2200 and from there declined to extinction. When 'overpopulation' was reached, most of the mouses stopped reproducing and "just ate, slept, and groomed."
E10mo TIL of Story Musgrave, the most Formally Educated Astronaut, despite being a HS Dropout . He has BAs in Mathmatics, Statistics, and Chemistry; a MBA; a MS in Physiology and Biophysics; a MD (surgery); and a MA in Literature. He's also the only astronaut to have flown on all 5 Space Shuttles.
9Mjp TIL that asparagus can grow up to 7" in a day, and a farmer can harvest spears more than once a day from the same plant.