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TIL Psychopaths tend to have a poor sense of smell
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TIL after Tim Duncan's sophomore year in college he was already a top NBA prospect. Jerry West, the Lakers GM, said he could've been the #1 pick in the '95 draft. But he finished college instead because he promised his dying mom he'd get a degree. It didn't hurt his draft position, he went #1 in '97
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TIL that Ivory soap floats because it’s whipped with tiny air bubbles that make it less dense than water. An employee had accidentally left a batch of soap to mix while for too long while he was on lunch break and the rest is history.
7repr
TIL ships that were constructed before 1945 are the primary source of steel that is not contaminated with radioactive nuclides. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki along with nuclear tests and disasters have polluted the atmospheric air that is being used for the steel production.
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TIL there was an episode of the 1980s’ Transformers’ cartoon where Megatron and the decepticons got hammered by overindulging on energon
PLRn
TIL That the man who wrote the classics, ‘The Count of Monte Christo’ and 'The three Musketeers’, Alexandre Dumas, was Black.