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TIL that roughly one out of every three socks you wear was made in a place known as “Sock City”. A small Chinese village in the 1980s it has grown to employ over 100,000 people and produces 8 billion socks a year.

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nXjo TIL that if you fall in a pool of lava, you will not sink into it. the density of lava is three times greater than a human body and between a hundred thousand to a million times more viscous than water
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