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TIL that the EPA was founded as a response to an overly polluted river catching fire in 1969

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M70OA TIL McDonalds once had a broccoli flavored bubblegum
9lbm TIL Robin Williams was sued in 1986 after transmitting herpes to a waitress while cheating on his wife
vWB TIL that emu and red kangaroo are depicted on Australian Coat of Arms, because they cannot move backwards easily. Rather it symbolises nation moving forward.
16xjW TIL Bees could see the color difference between two pieces of “white” paper. Researchers used zinc white for one paper and lead white for the other, and although these look exactly the same to us, the bee could easily distinguish them, because they reflect a different amount in the ultraviolet
4VBN TIL, Ancient Greeks and Romans used asbestos to make fire retardant materials so they could be cleaned by throwing them into the fire. Pliny the Elder noted that people who had contact with asbestos-containing materials acquired “sickness of the lungs.”