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TIL that drinking beer has been shown to reduce the risk of certain kidney stones

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o4wA TIL We see the colors that we do because that is just about the only spectrum of light that passes through water, the area where eyes first evolved. There hasn’t been any evolutionary reason on land to see any broader spectrum.
rRN10 TIL that in the XIX century there was a major social movement to limit the working time to 8 hours a day, or 40 hours a week
QNKV9 TIL that non-naked mole rats do exist.
jgwn TIL when a city in Indiana replaced all their signaled intersections with roundabouts, construction costs dropped $125,000, gas savings reached 24k gallons/year per roundabout, injury accidents dropped 80%, and total accidents dropped 40%.
GR67 TIL that “TASER” is an acronym for Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle