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TIL the Romans had multi tools long before the Swiss made them.

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e0ag4 TIL Louis Armstrong asked Richard Nixon to carry his bags through customs for him because he ‘was an old man’. The bags had marijuana in them.
glKb TIL Giant kelp plant may grow to more than 148 ft (45 m) long at a rate of as much as 2 ft (61 cm) per day.
XEXaR Today I Learned that simply washing your lenses with soapy water prevents them from fogging when you wear a facemask and that this is a common technique used by surgeons and others in the operating theatre.
LWkd TIL The cows that make the milk that goes into Ben & Jerry’s ice cream receive massages.
JVwm TIL the Greek poet Hipponax was so good at insulting people that his victims sometimes killed themselves.