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TIL That Men NEED to consume cholesterol to create Testosterone and build muscle

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kO0Qd TIL that a major breakthrough towards the invention of plastics was achieved due to a surge in the popularity of billiard, prompting producers of billiard balls to offer a reward of 10000$ to anyone who could come up with a viable alternative to ivory (which the balls were hitherto made of...)
jNpRn TIL there are ice caps, crusts is water ice, and water crystals that can be found in many places in our own solar system on planets, moons, comets and in the rings of giant planets like Saturn.
W77NL TIL about the Brahminy Blind Snake, a species of snake the size of an earthworm and can be found on every continent
647 TIL A Particle Accelerator with 5x the Power of the Large Hadron Collider was planned in Texas but was scrapped due to budget concerns
6El98 TIL Stephen Hawking is believed to be the longest living person ever with ALS at 55 years since diagnosis. ALS can kill in months, with less than 20% living past 10 years.