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TIL about lava crickets, crickets that make their home in cooled lava and drink seafoam to survive

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X0mdR TIL that Health Canada issued a safety brief in 2022 regarding topical steroids and the risk for topical steroid withdrawal reaction
jBPn TIL From 1800 to 1929, Americans lived through 23 recessions and four depressions, or one every 4.8 years.
QJmOE TIL Denver Pyle (Uncle Jessie from the Dukes of Hazzard) made a fortune by buying oil wells cheaply that were thought to be end-of-life, and holding until later technology improved to allow extraction of more oil, and only continued acting for the fun of it
dDEoj TIL: The EU plans to connect the rivers Seine and Scheldt with a 107 km long canal in a project more ambitious than the Panama Canal, creating one continuous inland water transport system from the English Canal to the Black Sea
0wgwp TIL Tiger Woods is only 1/16th African-American and 75% Asian.