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TIL France outlawed discardable dishware in fast food restaurants.

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WkMO8 TIL that if you hold in too many farts, the gas can be reabsorbed and then exhaled in your breath.
4kkNN TIL the famous "Scopes Monkey Trial" of 1925 was deliberately conceived as a publicity stunt for the town of Dayton, Tennessee. Residents of the town held a protest and threatened to boycott Chattanooga when the trial was initially to be moved there.
EgMEV TIL Salmon sperm DNA is used in molecular biology experiments as a standard or template for PCR and as a competitor in hybridisation assays due to its high purity. It can even increase the human DNA recovered from a cotton swab.
wLZOE TIL Blood donors in Sweden get a text message whenever their blood saves someone's life
PRVZ TIL that During the financial crisis of 1720, known as the South Sea Bubble, the Houses of Parliament called for stockbrokers to be sewn into sacks filled with poisonous snakes and thrown into the River Thames