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TIL boiling water can remove microplastics

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4XB7o TIL of Senator William Proxmire, who was so active in opposing scientific/medical research that his name became a verb. To Proximire means to obstruct scientific research for political gain.
LQERd TIL that Shampoo was first discovered in India
VP7G TIL that 96 health groups accepted money from CocaCola/Pepsi to tell us that soda does not lead to obesity and health problems.
XE4nj TIL Ignosticism or igtheism is the idea that the question of the existence of God is meaningless because the term god has no coherent and unambiguous definition and/or that every other theological position assumes too much about the concept of god and many other theological concepts.
6E6EW TIL that "right-wing" and "left-wing" labels originated from the French Revolution, in which anti-royalists sat on the left of the French National Assembly hall and pro-royalty sat on the right.