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TIL that in 1866 the US Congress passed legislation that legally protected use of the metric system in commerce.

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7rad7 TIL studies of Vitamin D supplements show they offer a significant chance of preventing cold & flu, while Vitamin C actually has little to no benefit.
VMbMm TIL when Jonas Salk, who developed the first protective agent for polio, was asked about who has the patent, he responded by saying "Well the people, I would say, there is no patent" and then laughs saying "could you patent the sun?"
7lNO TIL there have been almost 7,000 cases of whooping cough in California this year, affecting mostly unvaccinated children ages 7-16.
RYJ6 TIL Not using your blinker is more than 2 times as likely to cause an accident than texting while driving
j6jBN TIL that All of Earth's water—including oceans, icecaps and glaciers, lakes, rivers, groundwater, and water in the atmosphere—equals ~326 quintillion gallons (326,000,000,000,000,000,000). Of that, a tiny fraction, 37.5 quadrillion gallons, is in the atmosphere above us as water vapor.