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TIL about the Law of Triviality (aka bike-shedding) where the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum [of the money] involved.

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16oRW TIL that sewage treatment plants are not currently designed to remove pharmaceutical drugs from water. Nor are the facilities that treat water to make it drinkable. The aquatic life, particularly fish, are shown that estrogen and chemicals that behave like it have a feminizing effect on male fish.
Y7Ro7 TIL according to medieval legend the Codex Gigas was created by a monk sentenced to be walled up alive; but to escape death promised to create, in one night, a book with all human knowledge. Near midnight, the desperate monk gave Lucifer his soul to finish the book. Thus, a nickname "Devil's Bible".
D87V TIL that human saliva contains natural painkiller which is nearly six times more potent than morphine.
78n7r TIL Kermit the Frog's name in most of Hispanic America is la rana René (René the Frog), while in Spain, he is named Gustavo.
m7YE TIL: the bikini swimsuit was named after the nuclear explosions that destroyed Bikini island. The inventor wanted to imply the bikini was as momentous an invention as the new bomb. This was a time when beautiful women were “bombshells” and anything cool was “atomic.”