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TIL boiling water can remove microplastics
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TIL that the Taipei 101 skyscraper uses a 728 ton steel tuned mass damper (basically a giant pendulum) to counter motion of the building since it is so close to a fault line.
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TIL PETA euthanize 86% of the animals that they rescue.
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TIL in the extinct Australian language Mbabaram, the word for dog is 'dog'. This is purely a coincidence and there is no relation between the words
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TIL Brigitte Höss, daughter of Rudolf Höss (Commandant of Auschwitz), was employed by a Jewish couple in Washington DC in the 70s. "They saw her as a person, in her own right, apart from her father".
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TIL American Gothic (1930) by Grant Wood depicts a Farmer and his Daughter, not a Farmer and his Wife