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TIL that Clair Patterson, the geochemist who discovered the Earth’s age to be 4.5 billion years old using lead isotopic data from the Canyon Diablo meteorite, also spearheaded the campaigning of the US government to finally ban of the use of lead in gasoline, paint and food packaging.

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epPjk TIL Bluejays can make a wide variety of calls similar to hawks, ducks, and even gurgling sounds?
dYO7 TIL That a British PoW captured by the Germans in World War I was freed to see his dying mother - but went back to the prison camp after giving the Kaiser ‘his word’ he would return.
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R7gOa TIL Casey Jones sacrificed himself in order to slow his train to save his passengers from serious injury or death. He was the only fatality.
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