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TIL The average healthy human produced 1 to 2 liters of snot per day

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LQlD9 TIL that influenza originated as an indirect result of the domestication of pigs and ducks
6EZjX TIL that James H. Dillard was a professor at Tulane University became the best-known and most-active white proponent for the education of blacks. In 1930, two historically black universities in New Orleans combined to form Dillard University, named in his honor.
lovpB TIL of the slow movement, which advocates a cultural shift toward slowing down life's pace, and "doing everything as well as possible, instead of as fast as possible." It began with a protest against the opening of a McDonald's in Rome in 1986. "It’s about quality over quantity in everything."
pYDaG TIL that between 1962–1965, the largest brain-eating amoeba outbreak killed 16 people in Czechoslovakia after a swimming pool was shortened, creating warm stagnant water — it took years to identify the source
AD4dn TIL In 1987 Fisher Price released the PXL2000 toy, ultra low tech, video camera that recorded monochromatic, low quality, video on audio cassettes. A commercial flop at the time, its now highly prized by film makers and artists for the uniquely grainy, antique, mysterious look it creates on film.