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TIL: Bacteria are present in clouds and help make snow/rain/clouds better than dust

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Oo6g4 TIL that Pheidippides, the man who inspired the modern marathon, initially ran 150 miles over two days to request help from Sparta before running back. He then ran the 25 miles to the battlefield near Marathon and back to Athens to announce the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of Marathon
b9JoE TIL there is a radio station in New Orleans for the blind. Volunteers every day read the local newspaper on the air, along best-sellers, grocery ads, stories for kids, mysteries, the Wall Street Journal, young adult novels and much more.
0d1dp TIL that Chris Farley’s cousin is now the CEO of Ford
4XQoa TIL about the cube teapot, which is a teapot whose main purpose was to be used on a ship. The cube shape of the teapot would stabilize it so that it would not roll over and scald the person making the drink, whereas conventional curved teapots would roll over when the ship rocked from side to side.
VZRG TIL the five largest meat companies in the US dumped 48,229,609 pounds of toxic pollutants into waterways in 2014 according to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)