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TIL Benjamin Franklin did heroin

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ZpRxB TIL many media outlets follow a formula designed to trigger outrage by spotlighting symbolic threats, villainizing “the other side,” and using emotionally charged language to keep you angry, loyal, and clicking. This is called the Outrage Industrial Complex.
9wlNX TIL Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow regions in the atmosphere, like rivers in the sky, that transport massive amounts of water vapor from of the tropics roughly equivalent to the average flow of water at the mouth of the Mississippi River. They can unleash heavy rain and cause severe flooding.
mxjWE TIL that Genghis Khan had more than 1,000 affairs during his lifetime, making every 1 in 200 men related to him...
WkrX9 TIL Sharks can suffer from cancer. The misconception that sharks do not get cancer was spread by the 1992 book 'Sharks Don't Get Cancer' by I. William Lane and used to sell extracts of shark cartilage as cancer prevention treatments.
XjOE TIL that your LCD monitor consumes more energy when it is black than when it is white