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TIL that Cockroach dust plays a part in why so many inner-city children have asthma.

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XEM8P TIL of Adolf Topperwein, an exhibition shooter who in a 10 day period in 1907, shot 72,500 flying wooden blocks, missing only 9. His longest run without a miss: 14,500.
epwxg TIL that there’s a dragon in some versions of the Bible
xV6K0 NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter burned up in the Martian atmosphere because engineers failed to convert units from English to metric.
E1oj7 TIL Good Judgement Project (GJP) that demonstrated certain "superforecasters" were better at predicting geopolitical and economic events than even experts in that field (even if they had classified info) based on HOW they thought about problems & ability to reduce basic biases experts tend to have.
b6By0 TIL that History Channel’s Pawn Stars had a fake pawn shop set built exclusively to film the show in. Because of the show’s huge popularity, it became virtually impossible to film inside of the real store.