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TIL The U.S. Government Spent $12 Billion Building The Worlds Largest Supercollider In Texas. And Then Never Opened It.

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ANMkB TIL only mammals have alveoli.
e0rxk TIL about Damnatio Memoriae. People’s likenesses were destroyed and his name stricken from the records. The process of damnatio memoraie was intended to be a permanent judgement.
a4AL TIL: to counter terrorism during 2004 bus bombings in Israel, bus drivers used squirt guns to spray pig fat on suspected bombers; this way they refuse to detonate and meet allah unclean.
gM6GA TIL according to a 2011 study published in the International Journal of Impotence Research, eating 100 grams of pistachios at lunch every day for three weeks led to increased blood flow to “the problem area,” leading to a significant decrease in erectile dysfunction.
jNV9R TIL cockroaches wont eat cucumbers. This is due to a chemical in cucumbers (trans-2-nonenal) which acts as a natural replent for ants and roaches.