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TIL an average of 250 oil pipeline accidents happen each year, at a cost of over $6.3 billion.

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NWe1 TIL the members of The British Royal Family aren’t allowed to play Monopoly because of how vicious the competition gets.
k5mm TIL in 1999 the WHO found food irradiation so safe, they deemed “risk assessment” inappropriate because there was no risk (document p. 162; PDF p. 67)
Jw71 TIL Charles Darwin & Joseph Hooker started the world’s first terraforming project on Ascension Island in 1850. The project has turned an arid volcanic wasteland into a self sustaining and self reproducing ecosystem made completely of foreign plants from all over the world.
b0Va TIL Pregnant women are affected by morning sickness to protect the unborn fetus in its most vulnerable stage, when organs first start developing. It clears her system (via vomit) of substances that typically carry microbes or toxins.
Ooa4e TIL some Jewish males celebrate a second Bar Mitzvah at age 83, under the logic that the Torah states a normal lifespan is 70 years, thus an 83-year-old can be considered 13 in a second lifetime. This practice is becoming more common as people live longer, healthier lives