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TIL to date, we have only explored 5% of the sea.

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X0PRE TIL that frequent blood donation has been shown to reduce the concentration of "forever chemicals" in the bloodstream by up to 1.1 ng/mL, and frequent plasma donors showed a reduction of 2.9 ng/mL.
woXao TIL that an anonymous medieval textbook on female anatomy, De secretis mulierumm, warned that if a cat ejaculated on some sage, and a man ate some of this sage, he would gestate kittens in his stomach and have to give birth to them by vomiting.
19l7 TIL Genetic study points to Indigenous Australians as the oldest continuous society on Earth
X0kgD TIL the construction of the Equitable Building in Manhattan and the controversy surrounding it led New York City to adopt the 1916 Zoning Resolution, the first of its kind in the U.S.
4XLpX Mars and the moon are already at the top of NASA’s prospect list for future human exploration and possibly colonies, but another planet has recently been getting some unexpected attention. NASA seriously wants to send humans to Venus.