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TIL Russia still regularly produces and uses Asbestos products

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R7aB6 TIL: America is home to “Body Farms,” places where corpses are just tossed out into nature to rot for scientists to study decomposition and forensics.
7rLVb TIL Australian adventurer Francis Birtles in 1927 became the first man ever to drive from England to Australia by car
v1j7R TIL the "Sex Raft" was a 1973 experiment in which five men and six women of various religions, nationalities and social backgrounds drifted across the Atlantic on a raft for 101 days in order to study sexual and physical aggression. It produced little in the way of worthwhile scientific results
dDrVB TIL that when you vibrate soil, worms come to the surface NOT because they think it's raining, but because they think a mole is attacking them underground
4X1Ko TIL Mike Myers was emotionally needy and difficult during the filming of Wayne's World. The director attempted to calm Myers by having her daughter provide him snacks, and on one occasion he stormed off the set, upset that there was no margarine for his bagel.