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TIL there is a hemp-based substitute for concrete called ‘Hempcrete’. Shine on you crazy diamond.

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X4er TIL - Dollar store pregnancy tests are as sensitive, or more sensitive than the $15 brand name tests
MX0 TIL that Google has started a beta in Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Thailand and Uganda called ‘Google trader’ where locals can contact sellers of anything from chicken egg incubators to entire houses.
rR7w TIL that during WWII Boeing camouflaged their production plant by building a fake town on the roof.
1GY4 TIL that according to 2007 research, seahorses are “promiscuous, flighty, and more than a little bit gay.” Seahorses will flirt with as many as 25 potential partners in a day, and about 37% of seahorse sexual encounters are same-sex acts.
BgwRD TIL In contrast to high treason, petty treason was a crime in England which involved the killing of a social superior seen as breaking the social hierarchy; such as a servant killing their master. Unlike with high treason, men would be hanged but not quartered, women would be burned but not drawn.