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TIL A 2004 American Public Health Association (APHA) resolution called for a moratorium factory farms for growing antibiotic resistance of pathogens, drinking water contamination from waste, severe respiratory problems in workers, and illnesses among people living nearby

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9w6LD TIL coffee is universally beneficial against several kinds of liver diseases
wLpbE TIL Famous physicist Sir Roger Penrose conjectures that consciousness is a result of quantum mechanical phenomena in neurons. He has worked with anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff to suggest with anesthetic/biological research that microtubules may act as a suitable site in neurons for consciousness.
m6dp TIL American football player Chad Johnson loves playing FIFA 16 and has flown to the houses of people who trash talk him on Twitter to beat them.
9wJnr TIL about Lucas Miller, a Congressman who wanted to rename the USA to "United States of Earth" and admit new states until every country was a part of the USA
m1ddR TIL in 1995, a man was convicted by a court in France for the murder of a teenage girl. However, he fleeing to Germany. In 2009, the father of the victim organized a team to abduct the killer from Germany and deliver him to a French courthouse, where he was finally sentenced to 15 years in prison.