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TIL metals permanently fuse when touching each other in outer space, an effect known as 'cold welding'

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6ERPw TIL that in 1975, the FDA banned the sale of turtles with a shell less than four inches long. The CDC estimates that the ban averts 100,000 cases of Salmonella infections—salmonellosis—each year in US children.
KYZk6 TIL 17-20 people on the waiting list for an organ transplant die every day in the United States and only slightly more than half of the 100,000+ people on the list are expected to receive an organ within five years.
7Ky7 TIL that for twenty years, the US nuclear launch code was ‘00000000’
OOBY TIL around 87% of Ontario residents aren’t aware The Beer Store monopoly is not run by the government.
K0W6 TIL “ [Siberian] Huskies will obey if required to, but their natural tendency is to be cooperative rather than obedient, and they prefer to be companions rather than mere pets.”