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TIL the rivers are so clean in Bern and Basel in Switzerland that many people commute to work by swimming.

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Y7ZNW TIL that cotton candy was invented by a dentist
rkAe TIL “health insurance” was actually cooked up as a ploy by hospitals to fill empty beds. The real impetus to making insurance commonplace is when they made premiums tax-free if paid by employers. Before insurance the average person spent $5 per year on medical care.
8GQV TIL that blowing your nose when it’s stuffy generally makes things worse and prolongues your cold symptoms
oGVY TIL that city life is potentially diverging a population of raccoons down an alternate evolutionary path in comparison to their rural counterparts. City raccoons show higher intelligence and just a few decades of city life has changed raccoon populations more than the previous 40,000 years.
46DJ TIL Disney once had plans to team up with the makers of Myst for a Myst themed interactive park, Myst Island.