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TIL Yellowstone hot spring pools are acidic and can dissolve an entire person

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ADnGl TIL Peter Mills, the last surviving American slave, died in 1972 at the age of 110
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8KEa TIL that “Quinnine” (the stuff in tonic water) has been used to treat Malaria all the way back to 1631 in Rome and also played a key role in colonizing West Africa
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