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TIL: that the color of your nail polish can affect your blood oxygen reading.

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P4Kn TIL that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of many “trash islands” floating in our oceans. The GPGP alone contains nearly 3.5 million tons of trash which is mostly bits of plastic.
9bnQ TIL in the 1990s, Steve Wozniak, one of the founders of Apple, submitted so many high scores of the classic Gamboy game Tetris to Nintendo Power magazine that they eventually refused to print them. He then began sending them under the name “Evets Kainzow.”
oBMGL TIL of "Project A119" a plan from 1958 in which the US Air Force wished to nuke the moon in an attempt to show power over the Soviets and also collect data on astrogeology. The project was eventually rejected due to fear of public backlash.
7ylM TIL Electricity was introduced to Ethiopia in 1896 after Emperor Menelik II ordered two newly invented electric chairs as a form of humane capital punishment and realized they were useless in his country without electricity
1aNAd TIL that Tight Pants Syndrome is a real health risk, resulting in abdominal and chest pain and could lead to "testicular torsion" if not treated. The cure is simple. Wear pants that fit.