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TIL approximately 62.5 percent of the 24,000 chemicals added to the TSCA inventory since 1982 cannot be “meaningfully identified by the public” because their names are claimed as “trade secrets.” If a chemical’s identity is not known, it is very difficult, if not impossible to monitor human exposure

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6EyjZ TIL: Former USAF nuclear missile launch officer Captain Robert Salas and a group of five former USAF officers and airmen gave a press release stating they witnessed UFOs deactivate nuclear missiles and even land in a nuclear weapons storage area
e7Kb TIL there is an epsiode of Family Guy that Fox has not allowed to air in the United States becuase it centers around Lois’s decision to have an abortion
J1pyk Today I learned that the Jambato Toad was believed to have gone extinct back in 1988 due to being wiped out by a fungal disease, but the species was rediscovered in 2016.
awjpZ TIL of catastrophism, a 19th century geological school of thought which saw the large fossil record as evidence proving the existence of a world previous to ours, destroyed by sudden natural catastrophes such as great floods and the rapid formation of major mountain chains.
Qpda TIL “Gringo” did not originate in Mexico to describe Americans, but in Spain in the 1700’s to describe foreigners whose speech was incomprehensible. Gringo likely came from the word “griego” meaning Greek, which in Spanish was used in the same way as English, “it’s Greek to me” (hablar in griego).