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TIL that adding milk (or anything with fat) to tea destroys the tea’s antioxidants

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Q9b6 TIL the margin of error in the Indian population census is twice the global Jewish population
JZKj TIL: In 2008, a 4chan user made a prank about how Steve Jobs “died of a heart attack”, after the prank went around social media, Apple’s stock dropped around $5,000,000,000 because of the joke.
l7YNA TIL about Low-Background Steel, which is any steel made before the first nuclear explosion. It is used for very sensitive equipment like Geiger counter
0wj6M TIL of the Ozark Hellbender salamander, aka the Snot Otter, Lasagna Lizard, or Grampus. At 3-5 lbs with undulating skin, it reminded settlers of "horrible tortures of the infernal regions." But now it's endangered (only 590 left), so to raise awareness, Pennsylvania made it their state amphibian
VjrB TIL the male urethra produces a spiral stream of urine that has the effect of cleaning the external urethral meatus (Where the urine exits the body). The lack of an equivalent mechanism in the female urethra partly explains why urinary tract infections occur so much more frequently in females.