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TIL That Coca-Cola Named The World’s Most Polluting Brand in Plastic Waste Audit

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BrXRx TIL siblings born within a year of each other are called "Irish twins", which was a derogatory term referring to poor Catholic families with many successive children
VM09D TIL of a researcher who was trying to develop eye-protection goggles for doctors doing laser eye surgery. He let his friend borrow them while playing frisbee, and his friend informed him that they cured his colorblindness.
g9gb TIL a “Chichevache” is a (fabled) human-faced cow that is perpetually starved because it only eats good and faithful wives. The Bicorne, its husband-eating counterpart is well-fed.
kK1g TIL that the first country in the world to run off completely green energy was costa rica.
8aQob TIL of Bicameral theory. The idea that humans have been a self aware and conscious species for only a few thousand years. It's based off the overwhelming absence of introspection and meditation in very ancient texts.