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TIL kitchen sponges are "microbial incubators" and cannot be effectively sterilized outside of laboratory conditions

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aygJ TIL if you can prove you had an ancestor that was Luxembourgish as of 1st of January 1900, you can get citizenship without ever having set foot in the country.
j6OMn TIL about IG (Internet Group), in 2001 the most accessed news portal in Brazil. Due to the constant flurry of bad news, especially due to urban violence, they decided to institute the "good news day", w no bad news reported. The first day for the campaign was chosen to be September 11, 2001.
xVQAo TIL That Jim Henson's puppeteers sometimes didn't break character during bloopers
BrEok TIL that over 1/4th of global hazelnut production is bought by an Italian company to make Nutella.
M7ABB TIL The factoid "the brain doesn't finish developing until 25" is an extremely misleading summary of a complex phenomena