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TIL in the 70’s McDonald’s was forced to redesign its coffee spoon because it was being used for snorting and measure cocaine

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awwPL TIL Windows were originally ventilation holes for stale air and smoke called Vindr Auga which means ‘the wind’s eye’ in Old Norse.
grgKA TIL that some patients remain awake during brain surgery so doctors can ensure vital areas controlling speech or movement aren’t damaged. They can talk and even play instruments mid-surgery.
VKdp TIL that there are estimated to be 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 individual ants alive on Earth at any given time, with their biomass outweighing all humans and marine fish combined
e0pxg The ocean produces at least 50 percent of the Earth’s oxygen, and strangely enough, whale poop is the fuel that helps keep our oceans alive. In this episode of Today I Learned, Asha de Vos tell us why we should all say thanks to whales and their poop.
b6OJ9 TIL Alexander Hamilton supported the Haitian Revolution and helped shape the constitution of Haiti