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TIL the Titanic will be reduced to a rust stain in an estimated 15-20 years due to a metal eating bacteria.

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woON6 TIL - The average person unknowingly eats a surprisingly high number of bugs each year! According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the average person consumes up to one and a half pounds of insects annually through fruits and vegetables. That amounts to about 440 to 660 bugs per year!
VMQ9D TIL Archaeologists found 2,800 year old ceramic sippy cups with cute animal motifs, containing traces of livestock milk, which suggests infants back then were drinking it. The dates correspond to a baby boom at that time, suggesting that sippy cups were an important innovation for humanity.
5VPeD TIL a 2020 analysis found that approximately 1.8% of physicians were responsible for half of the roughly $83.3 billion paid out in malpractice lawsuits that were reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank over a 25 year period.
dLaB TIL Philip Morris discovered that its new fire-safe cigarettes were instead much more apt to cause fires. Their response was to fire the scientist who told them this.
D1vor TIL about John “Liver Eatin’” Johnson, a Mexican-American War veteran turned mountain man, who in 1847 started a personal vendetta against the Crow Nation after they killed his Flathead wife, he is said to have killed and scalped more than 300 Crows and then ate their livers as a sign of disrespect