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TIL eucalyptus trees can store gold in their leaves after transporting it all the way from their roots

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nW8dW TIL that the earliest known mention of bad breath occurs in ancient Egypt, where detailed recipes for toothpaste are made before the Pyramids are built. The 1550 BC Ebers Papyrus describes tablets to cure bad breath based on incense, cinnamon, myrrh and honey
6Ej8w TIL that U.S. Congressman John Reilly bought the South Fork Dam, sold the dam's critical sluice pipes for scrap, then resold the dam to a club for wealthy families. Further alterations resulted in a failure that killed 2,209 people and destroyed 1,600 homes. No damages were paid.
PYp6n Today I learned about Lychrel numbers. A Lychrel number is a natural number that cannot form a palindrome through the iterative process of repeatedly reversing its digits and adding the resulting numbers. For example 57+75 = 132, 132+231 = 363, a palindrome. There is no known sequence for 196
YAGB TIL that when our ancestors started walking upright on two legs, our skeleton configuration changed affecting our pelvis and making our hips narrower, and that’s why childbirth is more painful and longer for us than it is to other mammals.
Xwb8 TIL that people in France who can’t afford the housing market are making homes in caves