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TIL that Russian gold-medal winning blind Paralympians are given cars for their effort, and some of them drive on a daily basis

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KaZa TIL that Albuquerque, NM, started paying the homeless to clean up homeless camps around the city. The participants must work hard and on average five to six hours a day. In return they get $9 an hour plus a lunch of sandwiches, chips and granola bars
9Yb7Q TIL that Human milk contains components that are indigestible to human infants. Instead, these components seem to have evolved specifically to feed important gut bacteria.
nWNV9 TIL: Judaism has co-official religion status in three jurisdictions: Israel; Alsace-Moselle, France; and Singapore.
KOVXa TIL though distilled water has a pH of 7 immediately after distillation, it becomes slightly acidic with a pH of 5.8 some time after distillation because it absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
nexJo TIL the urge to breathe doesn’t come from lack of oxygen, but from increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the bloodstream.