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TIL that glass blocks the wavelength of light required for the body to synthesize Vitamin D.

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pYvnp TIL: The Varna Culture's grave goods contain several times more gold than the other excavated sites from the same millennium combined
a8gMZ TIL in Sept 2023 a grand jury indicted Duane Davis for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur. He allegedly planned and ordered the hit in retaliation for his late nephew, Orlando Anderson, being beaten in a casino earlier that night. He's reportedly the last surviving participant of Shakur's murder.
lmZB TIL that people used to think the kidneys governed one’s conscience, and several Bible verses say God inspects the kidneys of the dead. Jewish tradition holds that one kidney counsels what is good, and the other what is evil.
kK9e TIL Albuterol, one of the oldest asthma medicines, typically costs $50 to $100 per inhaler in the United States, but it was less than $15 a decade ago, before it was repatented
KOv76 TIL That Rome's most tyrannical emperor, Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, also known as Caligula, made one of his favorite horses a senator.