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Study finds microplastics in more than 90 percent of tested water bottles.

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nr1o TIL In 2009 the University of Montreal tried to conduct a study into the views of men who never watched porn, it failed to find a single candidate.
yVBve TIL that Leonid Rogozov was not squeamish - an only doctor among 13 (talk about unlucky!) researchers at an Antarctic station, he performed a successful appendectomy on HIMSELF, helped by two assistants whose roles were to: a) pass him instruments; b) hold a mirror so that he could see better
oBY0r TIL before Kosovo was granted its own calling code, landline phones used the Serbian one, while mobile operators used the Monaco and Slovenia calling codes.
Om8L TIL of Anti-Monopoly, a game designed to show how hurtful monopolies can be to a free-enterprise system. The board starts off looking like a game of Monopoly had just been completed, and the aim is to return the board to the free market system.
oBPvR TIL that in post-Soviet Russia, feral dogs have learned to commute on the subway to broaden their food scavenging range - including getting to know which stops they are looking for based on the announcements over the PA.