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TIL Cash-strapped western hippies who came on buses to Nepal sold their Mercedes buses and those vehicles have been operational for nearly half a century.

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loE1N TIL about Dr Clara Immerwahr, the first woman to get a PhD in Chemistry in Germany in 1900. She assisted with the weaponisation of Mustard gas, which was subsequently used on the frontlines in 1915. During a party to celebrate it's successful use, she committed suicide by shooting herself.
pRlO TIL Your body is constantly replacing old cells with new ones at the rate of millions per second. By the time you finish reading this sentence, 50 million of your cells will have died and been replaced by others.
j71M TIL Americans spend more money on pets yearly than Germany spends on its entire defense budget.
rJVx TIL Bob Marley was buried with his red Gibson guitar, a bible open to Psalms 23, and a bud of marijuana.
0wabR TIL that if a new element were to be discovered, we would have to create a new row on the periodic table