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TIL that historians believe that the myth of the Cyclops came from the Greek discovering fossils of elephant ancestors.

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4kLRJ TIL the dangers of PVC.
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X07Y6 TIL that six doctors devised an experiment where they each swallow a Lego head as a means to determine the typical transit time of a commonly swallowed object. They then presented their findings with a 'Found and Retrieved Time' aka 'FART' score. The FART score averaged 1.71 days
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