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TIL: Polonium-210 in tobacco contributes to many of the cases of lung cancer worldwide

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9jDr TIL there is a sport called ‘kiiking’ , popular in Estonia, where people swing on swings all the way, a full 360 degrees
Yaov TIL that in 1997 for April Fools, many comic strip artists switched comics and each drew another one’s comic. It was called the Great Comic Strip Switcharoo.
69WNY TIL that the civilization of Easter Island was not destroyed because the people cut the trees down. In fact, it was the europeans and their South American descendants who caused the collapse the population in this island through disease, slavery and kidnapping the few remaining locals it had.
grgE9 TIL At the time of first European contact in the early 16th century, Florida was inhabited by an estimated 350,000 people belonging to a number of tribes.
BreZd TIL that the only difference between a caribou and a reindeer is that caribou are wild and reindeer are domesticated.