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TIL bleach will begin to degrade into salt water after about 12 months, even if kept in the original container

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W5LA TIL The term “pipe dream” came from people having fantasies from smoking an opium pipe.
16pGd TIL that dried peas blown out of a pea shooter served as alarm clocks to workers in industrial Britain. It was so common that Dickens made reference to it in Great Expectations.
5Yj1p TIL In 2019 just 20 polymer producers accounted for more than half of all single-use plastic waste generated globally and the top 100 accounted for 90 per cent.
yema TIL that during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, the African American hostages were released almost immediately as Iran was “sympathetic to oppressed minorities”.
MeGmK TIL A study found prejudice affects our abilities- When Asian girls were reminded of their ethnicity they did better at math, but when they were reminded of their gender, they did worse.