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TIL I learned whale poop freshens our air

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Z8ZWG TIL that Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, but never tried to make an antibiotic out of it. It was not until a decade later that a man named Howard Florey found Fleming's little-known paper and realized the mold's potential. Florey's work is estimated to have saved up to 200,000,000 lives.
Me6Ya TIL that women in Babylon were required to have done prostitution before they could marry!
npWo TIL That only the Chinese need to be reminded not to openly defecate at the Louvre in Paris
rN1J1 TIL: During the US Civil War, a father issued a writ of habeus corpus to get his underaged Son out of the US Army, when the writ was delivered to the camp, the provost had both the lawyer who had delivered the writ, and the Judge who had issued the writ arrested and imprisoned.
vPaV4 TIL: The Water Level of Spirit Lake Was Permanently Raised by 200ft due to a Volcanic Eruption 40 Years Ago, Preserving a Floating Forest of Fallen Trees