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TIL Dry cleaning isn't dry at all and is only called dry because it uses chemical solvents instead of water

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D1ljv TIL Pfizer seized the homes of a poor neighborhood in New London, Connecticut in 2000 to build a new research facility. Long after the homes were bulldozed, Pfizer abandoned its plans, leaving behind a wasteland.
nW49 TIL that the “Gish Gallop” is the debating technique of drowning the opponent in such a torrent of half-truths, lies, and straw-man arguments that the opponent cannot possibly answer every falsehood in real time.
d8ZZ9 TIL at least once a day, your immune system destroys a cell that could have become a cancer cell if it lived
rRp61 TIL of the Call of the Void, which is a sudden impulse to jump off high places, swerve your car into oncoming traffic, or cut yourself while holding a sharp object. It’s a common phenomenon, with one study concluded that it is likely related to the wiring of your brain.
yEyV TIL A production engineer deleted the original recording of the third verse of “Stan” by Eminem. Eminem messed up on the last three lines, and the engineer accidentally re-recorded over the whole thing because he was high. When confronted by Eminem, his response was “My bad man…you wanna hit this?”