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TIL of the Love Canal Chemical Disaster where they built a school on a chemical dump site and eventually 950 residents were evacuated in Niagara Falls, New York

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e07vg TIL early Antarctic explorers used a novel treatment for snow blindness- cocaine.
pxvO TIL that when you chew your food, your mouth instinctively molds it into a rounded mass called a “bolus” before you swallow it. Now, every time I eat anything, right before I swallow it, I am weirdly aware that it has been turned into a little ball in my mouth called a bolus.
xV7LB TIL that in 1978, an inspection of a damaged U.S. Navy ship revealed the remnants of claws from the tentacles of a giant squid. The claws were much larger than any that had been seen by scientists, indicating that the squid was of a size substantially greater than any that had been documented.
wLeEP TIL that the largest convenience store in the world is Buc-ee's in New Braunfels, Texas (outside San Antonio) at 68,000 square feet
Mee4W TIL Bill Cosby is still a Harlem Globetrotter