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TIL Eclipses May Generate Atmospheric Shocks
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The third molars—the last of a group of teeth that grinds food into easy-to-swallow chunks—tend to be overcrowded in adult human mouths, and thus require yanking. But every other toothed mammal has room for their “wisdom teeth,” and so did Neanderthals and other early hominids, says evolutionary biologist Leslea Hlusko of the University of California, Berkeley. So why have those teeth become such a pain for us?
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TIL That in 1938 pitchers intentionally walked and pitched around Hank Greenberg as he closed in on Babe Ruth’s (at the time) record of 60 home runs in a season, because they didn’t want a Jew to break Ruth’s record.
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TIL The outdoor clothing company ‘Patagonia’ use plastic bottles to create polyester fleece garments and are a leading manufacturer in transforming trash into fleece, decreasing their dependence on petrol
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TIL the word crackpot came from poor English people who went crazy from drinking tea steeped in cracked ceramic pots that had lead cores.
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TIL that 50 Cent has set a goal of feeding 1 billion people in Africa by 2016.