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TIL, Breathing the Air in Mumbai for One Day During Diwali Equivalent to 113 Cigarettes

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Omje TIL female ants and bees are more closely related to their sisters than their own daughters, which explains eusocial behavior.
mx9bY TIL A boneless ham is a ham from which the bone has been removed, after which the ham is tightly pressed into an oval-shaped package. Salt will break down some of the proteins in meat muscle, allowing them to reconnect and link with each other. That's why a boneless ham still appears solid.
8ex7P TIL Hitler's book Mein Kampf has been turned into a manga
W7RX TIL that due to a spelling error in the eBay listing, a bottle of Samuel Allsopp’s Arctic Ale from 1850 was purchased for $304 and resold less than 2 months later for $503,300
OokBa TIL It took over 100 for someone to notice that an Icelandic translation of Dracula published in 1901 was actually a near complete re-write of the novel and not an actual translation of the original work