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TIL The City of Omaha Nebraska is heavily contaminated by lead, due to a factory that spewed contaminated lead into the air. The EPA found more than 40,000 contaminated sites across the city, and children have elevated blood levels of lead.

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N7LEQ TIL : Saudi Arabia only abolished slavery in 1962 under pressure from the USA and GB
QNeya TIL The US military wasn’t allowed to invade North Vietnam. Resulting in the use of an extreme amount of heavy bombing as effectively the only way to attack the North’s forces within the North.
78PJO TIL (yesterday actually) about "Phantom Vibration Syndrome", a sensation that makes you feel like your phone is vibrating when it is not.
j68Ga TIL Winston Churchill’s favorite wine was Pol Roger champagne, which he has been estimated to have drank 42,000 bottles in his lifetime. When he died in 1965 Pol Roger ordered black-bordered labels to be placed on all their bottles in his honor.
4k8DJ TIL, dragonball creator Akira Toriyama, took the opportunity to make protagonist; Goku, easier to draw, when he conceived him as the first “super saiyan”.