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TIL Gas stoves pollute homes with benzene, which is linked to cancer

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PYNww TIL There is a museum dedicated to Snoring in Germany...
7rMLL TIL Keurig K-Cups are non-recyclable, non-biodegradable, and generate a ton of plastic waste. They are so environmentally unfriendly that its own inventor has said: “I feel bad sometimes that I ever did it.”
mrZx TIL Employees of Lego carry around Lego Minifigures with their names on them instead of Business Cards
kOWB5 TIL that signer of USA constitution, Gouverneur Morris, died from sticking a whalebone in his urethra.
Egbnp TIL after a brutal Union defeat at the Civil War Battle of Olustee in 1864, a train carrying wounded soldiers broke down during the retreat. With no working locomotive, exhausted troops and a few horses had to pull the train 13 miles over 2 days to escape a Confederate pursuit.