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TIL 44% of Americans can’t swim
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TIL the drinking straw was first invented by Sumerians over 5000 years ago to avoid drinking the solid byproducts of fermentation in their beer.
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TIL when whales die and sink, their carcasses, known as "Whale falls", provide a bounty of nutrients for deepwater creatures
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TIL that in 1984, 6,600 tons of radioactive rebar were distributed throughout Mexico and the U.S. after a radiation therapy unit was sent to a junkyard in Juárez, Mexico and converted into scrap metal. 814 irradiated buildings were ultimately demolished and 4,000 people were exposed.
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TIL that Dan Grimaldi, who is best known for playing Patsy Parisi on "The Sopranos", teaches in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Kingsborough Community College, as he has degrees in mathematics, operations research and data processing
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TIL all dogs have 3 eyelids