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TIL X-Men and Star Trek had a crossover

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11xr TIL that laser tattoo removal is the process of using different wave lengths of light to break down the metallic ink particles to sizes small enough that they can be passed to the liver by your body’s white blood cells.
kJVdE TIL The fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. A 36-letter word irony apparently intended …try saying that out loud.
pEVN TIL that in 1963, the Quebec government bought out all the private power companies and nationalized electricity. Today, 96% of Quebec’s power is from hydroelectricity, and it has some of the cheapest electricity rates in North America while earning billions in revenue.
KOmd4 TIL actor Ed Helms had open-heart surgery at age 13 to correct a severe congenital heart defect, which he described as supravalvular aortic and pulmonic stenosis. His surgery lasted nine hours and he was kept in intensive care unit for one week after
Oka6 TIL that in 1969 President Richard Nixon had proposed a form of Basic Income (or Negative Income Tax) for poor families in the US, but it was promptly defeated in the senate.