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TIL that Iran has an import ban on 75 so-called western luxury products, including toilet paper. The result is a huge black market in smuggled loo roll.

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MeG0W TIL Penguin poop will change Antarctica's ecosystem. Their nutrient rich poop can one day support plant and animals which currently can't survive in Antarctica.
wLwZP TIL NASA is proposing to cool the Yellowstone super volcano by drilling down 10km into the super volcano and pumping in water at a high pressure. They then plan to use the extracted heat as a resource for power.
EgxpV TIL baby aspirin isn't for babies and Reye's syndrome is real
e0wA6 TIL that Paul Bunyan stories were the 19th century logger equivalent of Chuck Norris jokes
d86G8 TIL Dr. John R Brinkley successfully scammed the American public into believing he could transplant goat testicles into the scrotum of infertile men in order for them to conceive.