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TIL in every whale's earwax is a record of its lifetime exposure to pollutants.

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QJOvX TIL of "scent branding" and how businesses pump custom scents into their buildings. Nike's signature scent was reportedly inspired by the smell of a rubber basketball sneaker as it scrapes across the court and a soccer cleat in grass and dirt.
rROMW TIL When a wallet or purse says "genuine leather" it's not telling you its really made of leather, but what grade the leather is. It is acually the 2nd worst kind of leather.
5VkB TIL that when the Apollo team jettisoned their lunar module, the collision caused “the entire Moon [to ring] like a gong, vibrating and resonating for almost an hour after the impact.”
b454 TIL after waiting more than 24 hours for treatment in an NYC psychiatric hospital, a woman collapsed, convulsed, and died in the waiting room and remained there for an hour before anyone checked on her.
rNp74 TIL that, since the 1970s, women and under-18 men are banned from enter Herbertstraße (part of the red light district of Hamburg) due to prostitutes actively chasing away any women who entered to seek their husbands or boyfriends