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TIL a 2019 study by Drexel University (in addition to many other studies) found that houseplants do not improve air quality or otherwise purify the air.

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DPov TIL in 1970, there were roughly half as many people in the world as there are now.
0wX1 TIL North Korea has used Nazi-style human experiments on its citizens in the past and is unknown if they still do so today.
Y7xRx TIL: The stereotype of someone having a seizure say they smell buring toast comes from a real life 1950s case of Dr Wilder Penfield whose patient would smell burning toast before having a seizure
mvkE TIL: Rejection uses the same pathway in the brain as physical pain. Tylanol can help reduce that emotional pain.
96yr TIL Little Tikes, red and yellow Cozy Coupe toy car reached 6 million units in sales by its 25th anniversary in 2004, and was called the “world’s best-selling car for much of this decade” by The New York Times in 1998, outselling the Honda Accord and Ford Taurus.