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TIL that sand is a non-renewable resource, and that its world supplies are beginning to dwindle as billions of tons are used in construction each year.

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RRB4 TIL the modern Internet was born on January 1, 1983, making today its 30th cake day!
Z8vLQ TIL that as a percentage of its core, Mercury is the most metal planet in the solar system.
YDZv TIL There is a non-profit that operates boats that pick women up in their country where abortions are illegal then sails out to international waters (where Dutch laws are in effect on the ship) to perform the medical abortions
0Ogp TIL there is a relationship between pedophilia and lower IQ
Lkybm TIL a lab in Massachusetts pays people $40 for their poop. That poop is used for fecal transplants when a patient has chronic “C. diff” infections.