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TIL that in Texas, sunscreen products are tax exempt.

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OodAX TIL 50-80% of our oxygen comes from plants and bacteria in the ocean which is more than the amount all tropical rainforests on land produce combined
bgo0 TIL that when physics Professor Jack H. Hetherington learned he couldn’t be the sole author on a paper. (because he used words like “we” “our”) Rather than rewriting the paper he added his cat as an author.
97MM TIL the expiration date on bottled water is for the bottle, not the water.
ARoa TIL that, as a man, you can be arrested in Iran for wearing shorts.
pYWVe TIL about Inca polygonal masonry, where they would use huge stones cut into unique shapes that fit so well together that they didn't use mortar. The largest of these (at Sacsayhuamán) was ~200 tons, or 80 times the size of the blocks used at Giza. They didn't use draft animals, wheels, or pulleys.