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TIL Romans used urine as mouthwash, they even paid high dollar to have large quantities shipped in from Portugal because they didn’t think their own pee was exotic enough.

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P6lZ TIL Humans are closer to the size of the observable universe than they are to the smallest unit of measure (Planck length)
9r7Q TIL there is an American charity that pays drug addicts roughly $300 to get sterilized.
QJpBM TIL that the smallest insect is smaller than the biggest bacteria.