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TIL that in 1969 President Richard Nixon had proposed a form of Basic Income (or Negative Income Tax) for poor families in the US, but it was promptly defeated in the senate.

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b9a0j TIL that the Koyukon people of Alaska have a tale in which Raven takes 2 of each animal to protect them from a flood that actually predates the arrival of Christianity
OMDR TIL “Magic eraser” cleaning products do not use any chemicals to clean hard-to-remove marks, but instead act as extremely fine sandpaper.
9yOM TIL of “iron harvest”, in which nearly 900 tons of WWI unexploded munitions are recovered each year by Belgian and French farmers after ploughing their fields.
newwb TIL WWII shipwrecks are an important source of "low background steel" (i.e. steel produced before the introduction of nuclear weapons) required to produced devices sensitive to radioactivity.
Yb7Z TIL: Going to the bathroom is one of the most dangerous things a sloth can do. Half of all sloth deaths occur while they are climbing to and from the forest floor, which is where they poop.