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TIL the EU has banned 1,300 chemicals used in cosmetics, the US has only banned 11.

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m1lbp TIL in 1988 a tradie named Gordon O'Connor alongside his camel, Carla, defeated dysentery, kidney failure, the Australian outback and the SAS to win the world's longest animal endurance race
5myR TIL a woman grew up isolated in the Siberian forest, without seeing anybody outside her immediate family until they were discovered in 1978. She remains there still, as the sole surviving family member.
EgJvV TIL that in 2023, a rockslide caused a megatsunami in Dickson fjord in eastern Greenland. The wave was 650 ft tall at the water entry point, and averaged over 200 ft along a 6 mile stretch of the fjord.
1aGyV TIL that early phonographs didn't have volume control. People stuffed socks and towels into them to quiet them--which is where we get the phrase "put a sock in it"
OGQRg TIL: The King Cobra is not actually a Cobra and its name comes from it's propensity to eat other snakes, including Cobra