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TIL There is a shark that lives for several hundreds of years

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R5LW4 TIL about "The Pizza Meter," an unusual indicator of major US military actions
D1g6g TIL 28 of 50 US states do not require employers to give their workers rest or lunch breaks
YZ5W TIL you can calculate the radius of the Earth using just a stopwatch.
rRllM TIL: Color toilet paper was trendy in the past. In the 1950s, people would even coordinate their toilet paper with their bathroom color scheme. It reportedly died down when concerns about the safety of pastel dyes for the skin and the environment gained traction.
KOBWQ TIL synthesizer repair man Eliot Curtis accidentally tripped on acid while cleaning a a vintage Buchla Model 100 synthesizer.