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TIL General Mills’ Wheaties cereal contain so many metal fragments they could actually be lifted with a magnet

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MAg0 TIL that the total US highway fatality rate perfectly correlates to the number of fresh lemons imported from Mexico
R70W9 It’ll take LA as much as $6.4 billion to fortify itself against an impending increase in coastal flooding, with moves such as nourishing its beaches with extra sand and elevating its ports.
9wJ5X TIL darker skin people need more sunlight to make vitamin D. One experiment where a light skinned person was in sunlight for 8 hours saw their vitamin D concentration go up by 50x while a dark skinned person saw no change. They needed 5-10 times the sunlight length and then only saw a 30x change.
awRa9 TIL that 9,000 Fallen Soldiers Were Etched into the Sand on Normandy Beach to Commemorate Peace Day in 2013. This Was Meant As A Stark Visual Reminder Of The Civilians, Germans And Allied Forces Who Died During The D-Day Beach Landings At Arromanches
jWp TIL that 1991 to 2000, about 90% of the world’s LSD was made by one man.