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TIL that after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, thousands of hair stylists and alpaca farmers donated over 19 warehouses worth of cut hair to absorb the spilled oil.

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N7Qgb TIL Samurais in Japan were concurrent with Cowboys in the American Old West
mxeYY TIL about Yellapragada Subbarow who discovered that ATP is the source of energy of the cell was refused tenure at Harvard because he was an Indian
N7ype TIL that the origin of why vampires can't see themselves in a mirror is because mirrors used to be made of polished silver. Which the purity of a pure metal like silver was abhorrent to supernatural creatures.
0dJVA TIL that -40 degrees is the only temperature that is the same in Fahrenheit and Celsius
wrd1 TIL of a woman who had a phantom itch so persistent and severe in her scalp that she scratched through her skull while she slept, damaging her brain.