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TIL Exxon paid less than 4% of the cleanup they promised after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989

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OGgl4 TIL Eating boogers can be good for your teeth.
yQDXa TIL The sound of a baby crying can cause the mother's breasts to begin leaking.
wLDYW TIL Spider-Man's trademark web-swinging technique in "The Amazing Spider-Man" was done using practical effects instead of the cgi used in the previous films. They built a giant rig that allowed a stuntman to swing from a thin cable attached to a winch over and through the real streets of NYC.
46RR TIL that 11 squared is 121, 111 squared is 12321, 1111 squared is 1234321, and so on, leading up to 111111111 squared, which is 12345678987654321. Such results are known as palindromic numbers
oQB7 TIL in the mid-1800s, a snail spent nearly four years glued to a specimen card in the British Museum before scientists realized it was still alive.