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TIL Human DNA begins to degenerate at 55 years old

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npBP TIL: the term vagina means “sword holder” in Latin.
698XY TIL there's a man-made borehole that drains 100 million gallons of polluted coal mine runoff every day into the Lackawanna River and Chesapeake Bay.
jNa6a TIL there are children in Kosovo named "Tonibler", named after Tony Blair for his support of the 1999 NATO bombing in Yugoslavia.
WkMv4 TIL Smoking Areas existed in Public High Schools back in the 1980’s. Students could smoke cigarettes on school grounds between classes in designated lounges
VMJDp TIL of Republican Congress member Thaddeus Steven who wanted to exile former slave owners and redistribute their land among slaves and farmers