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TIL that For several years, up until 2018, Sweden’s official Twitter account was given to a random citizen every week to manage.

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oBraL TIL about the huge environmental impact of cut bunches of flowers due to the fact that most are grown in South America using pesticides banned in the West, trucked to and from airports, and flown around the world representing an enormous carbon footprint.
W7JLo TIL that Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in Space, was so inspired by Nichelle Nichols' portrayal of Lieutenant Uhura on Stark Trek that she began every shift of her 1992 Shuttle mission by radioing "Hailing Frequencies Open" as a tribute to the actress and her character.
wo5LE TIL that the earliest evidence of humans using psychedelics is a 9,000-year-old cave drawing in Algeria, which depicts a human-like figure with a bee head and mushrooms sprouting out of it.
D1o8p TIL that the steam iconically shooting out of the streets of New York City comes from the underground new york steam system. The 105 mile system of pipes began providing services in 1882, it uses clean water and still delivers steam to over 2,000 city buildings today.
P1K0n TIL The Tel Dan Stele refers to a “House of David” which scholars believe is referring to the Bible’s King David