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TIL the practice of making New Year's resolutions is believed to have originated some 4,000 years ago where the ancient Babylonians would make promises to their gods to start the new year with a clean slate by paying debts and returning borrowed items, hoping to gain favor in the coming year

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1anm7 TIL the majority of infections from swimming pools and hot tubs are caused by cryptosporidium, a diarrheal disease caused by microscopic parasites which are released (anally) into the water and then consumed (orally) by fellow swimmers. Hotel pools are the primary place of infection.
xNn7 TIL that butterflies remember their days as a caterpillar. Despite going into a completely liquified state during metamorphosis, the neurons for their brain stay arranged as such to allow for the memories to stay intact.
YgYP TIL that Niue, a small Polynesian island country in the southwest pacific, is the world’s first “WiFi Nation”, with free wireless internet access available throughout the entire country.
AD8l7 TIL that people misunderstood the 12 years to save the earth. the IPCC never said the world is gonna end in 12 years they said we have 12 to go carbon neutral. but got oversimplified to 12 years which made people think in 12 years the world ends.
5YkwQ TIL that when a super group made up of the world's most famous musicians came together to record "We Are the World" in 1985, Stevie Wonder announced that if the group did not finish the song in one take, he and Ray Charles would drive everyone home.