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TIL cellphones are 10 times dirtier than toilet seats

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5Mer TIL in 1982 drug dealers in California tried to synthesize heroin more cheaply, and accidentally created a substance that gave users late stage Parkinson’s disease in a matter of days.
MeXxm TIL The average U.S. gamer is 35 years old
WkZa8 TIL of the Bat' d'Af', French military units composed of heavily-tattooed criminals and problematic soldiers. Members called the units "the Hell" due to harsh discipine and living conditions. Despite this, they served with distinction in France's colonial wars, Crimea, and WW1.
v98K TIL that our oxygen doesn’t come from only trees. In actuality, about 70% of earth’s oxygen comes from the oceans (mainly small marine organisms called phytoplankton).
DlKj TIL Issac Newton roamed the streets as anti-counterfeit coin vigilante, then invented the ridges on coins to reduce fraud currency