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TIL the motto on the United Kingdom’s coat of arms is in French

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Rlo1 TIL that Clark Kent (DC comics’ Superman) is also a character in the Marvel universe, where he is actually just a mild-mannered reporter and nothing more
lNKB TIL if we lose 10kg of fat, 8.4kg turns into carbon dioxide which is exhaled when we breathe, and 1.6kg turns to water which is excreted through urine, tears, sweat and other bodily fluids
4XZ0w TIL that the successful effort to censure Republican SenatorJoseph McCarthy (R-WI) in 1954 was introduced and led by his fellow republican senators, of whom 22 voted in favor of censure.
X0eKR TIL: to clear land for logging in Canada, forestry workers, often students and junior rangers, spent weeks at a time as human markers holding red, helium-filled balloons on fishing lines while low-flying planes sprayed Agent Orange on the brush and the boys below. "We were saturated in chemicals"