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TIL that DNA has a 521-year half-life
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TIL In 1986 approximately 6.5 million people held hands in a human chain for fifteen minutes along a path across the contiguous United States.
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TIL Shampoo was introduced to Britain in 1814. The Bengali surgeon Sake Dean Mahomed opened the Isles' first shampoo bath in Brighton that year and promoted the practice as able to cure many diseases and give full relief when everything else failed.
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TIL 15 of the largest ships pollute as much as the worlds 760 million cars.
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TIL: All professional leagues have disaster plans for the loss of a team (ex: plane crash).
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TIL that Charles Hires, the first person to successfully market a commercial brand of root beer, decided to call his drink “root beer” despite it not containing any alcohol because he wanted to market it to Pennsylvania coal miners