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TIL 30% of the air pollution in California is from Asia

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QJmle TIL about Eats, Shoots & Leaves a book dedicated to Bolshevik printers of St. Petersburg who, in 1905, demanded to be paid the same rate for punctuation marks as for letters, and thereby directly precipitated the first Russian Revolution.
P8ye TIL King George III had an illness that caused his poop to turn purple
eB9J TIL FOX News reporters were fired for telling the truth about Monsanto.
8aP9G TIL that the genesis is still being manufactured in Brazil and sells about 150,000 consoles per year
awZ6J TIL: Two billion years ago, a uranium deposit at the present-day location of the Oklo mine in Gabon, west Africa, had just the right environmental characteristics to sustain a nuclear chain reaction. With ground water acting as a moderator, it operated like a natural version of a nuclear reactor.