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TIL about 2% of the population have a static screen overlay in their vision (including me)

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QNWEe TIL Studies have found that the amount of plastics that humans inhale or ingest results in a credit cards’ equivalent of microplastics in the bloodstream.
nW5Nd TIL hookers were named after General Hooker during the Civil War.
GYNa5 TIL guns can be fired in space. Gunpowder contains its own oxidizer, which allows guns to work even in the vacuum of space.
xgXb TIL In 2010 a man in Munich was investigated for being jobless but having large sums of cash. It was found that his apartment was full of artwork stolen by the Nazis
4X7eg TIL on 13th October 1908 Travers Symons escaped from her escort in the Houses of Parliament, burst into the main chamber, interrupted a debate by shouting, & thus became the first woman to speak in the House of Commons. She couldn't be arrested, the police having no power in the Houses of Parliament