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TIL New York City is actually rainier than London

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wLQZW TIL: The Royal Mint estimated as of 2014, 3% of British 1 pound coins were counterfeit.
Br1ar TIL inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller tried to document his life as completely as possible. Every 15 minutes from 1915 to his death in 1983 he recorded his life in his diary named ‘Dymaxion Chronofile’. Ultimately, it contains 14,000 papers and is a staggering 82 metres high.
gVxb TIL that Marie Curie was at the center of a sex scandal (cheated on her husband with a student & it leaked to the press) at the same time she was winning her second Nobel Prize.
YpkmW TIL the home remedy of ginger for nausea actually has some science behind it. It turns out ginger contains a substance called gingerol which is converted into a substance that blocks nausea signals in the stomach. It works in a similar way prescription anti-nausea drugs do.
x6oGo TIL that a guy deliberately infected himself with hookworms in an attempt to treat his allergies and asthma.