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TIL SpaceX launched nearly half of all space missions in 2023
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TIL that most people have some sort of herpes and it wasn’t actually stigmatized until a drug company found a way to profit from it.
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TIL 5000 years ago the Chinese created nail polish and used it to symbolize wealth and power among the elite. It was forbidden among the general population. Reports exist of commoners sentenced to die for wearing it.
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TIL “Shipping is cheap. So cheap that, rather than fillet its own fish, it is cheaper for Scotland to send its cod 10,000 miles over to China to be filleted and returned to Scotland.”
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TIL of Dishwasher Salmon. The Salmon is wrspped tightly in tinfoil to protect it and the heat of the dishwasher cycle effectively poaches it.
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TIL that Over 11 million Getty images, forming the Bettmann Archive, is preserved inside a cold, heavily guarded limestone mine, hundreds of feet beneath the ground, near Pittsburgh.