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TIL that humans can live unprotected in space for about 30 seconds if they don’t hold their breath.

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9Yk1Q TIL that most chewing gum made since WWII is based with synthetic petroleum polymers, making it non-biodegradable. Gum is the 2nd most littered object, and is expensive and time consuming to clean up.
XQ5R TIL Johnny Cash released a whole album called “Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian” because Cash had been convinced that his ancestry was Cherokee, even by members of the Cherokee tribe. Later he found it he was not Cherokee at all, but Scottish, English and Scots-Irish.
VBmpZ TIL: the design of the 'Single Leaf' Flag of Canada was designed and implemented as recently as 1964
16kPV TIL: upon selling the ‘Lord Of The Rings’ movie rights to United Artists in 1968, J.R.R. Tolkien strictly forbade that Disney would ever become involved. When referring to Disney’s pictures he said“some have given me nausea.”
BeJy TIL a woman from Michigan,US gave birth on 10/10/10, 09/09/09 and 08/08/08 whose odds are 50 million to one.