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TIL that Swedish band Roxette gained fame in the US thanks to an exchange student, Dean Cushman, who brought their album back home with him from Sweden

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Xw1D TIL Obsidian can be made into a scalpel with a cutting edge of 3 nanometers. A strand of DNA is 2.5 nm, a sheet of paper 100,000 nm
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