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TIL breathing the air in Mumbai for ONE day is equivalent to smoking 2.5 packs of cigarettes

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V8AB TIL though it has always been a fictional American city, the original artist of Superman modeled the Metropolis skyline after Toronto
R7xej TIL that the earliest example of Japanese Tentacle Erotica dates back more than 200 years ago
oRJeY TIL for every grain of sand on Earth there are 10,000 stars in the known universe, but the total number of stars in the known universe equals the number of molecules in just ten drops of water.
0wmER TIL Christopher Columbus used a book of astronomical tables when the next lunar eclipse would take place and use it to warn the indigenous people in Jamaica to treat his crew better or else the moon would rise red. Lunar eclipse happened, and they pleaded Columbus to restore the moon.
yQoYM TIL of Low Background Steel, steel produced in pre-nuclear ages, which is the only kind of steel that works for various medical and scientifical equipment, since the post-nuclear steel is contaminated by radiation.