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TIL - Dry cleaning is very much a wet process, the liquids they use in the washing machines are just solvents instead of water!

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PYPDG TIL that exercise does not actually contribute much to weight loss. Simply eating better has a significantly bigger impact, even without much exercise.
NXP1e TIL that the word kidnap is relatively recent and originally meant "to steal or carry off children or others in order to provide servants or labourers for the American plantations."
6ENyW TIL that each day about 3.75 kilograms of plant must be grown to produce the oxygen that 1 human uses
b9N57 TIL for the longest time (not anymore) the fastest man made object was a manhole cover blown into space in 1957 by the US with a nuclear bomb. They estimated approx. 125000 mp/h (200000 km/h). This would have had them zipping past Pluto around 1961.
16JmW TIL Pakistan has the highest percentage of population with Diabetes ~ 30%. And 3rd highest with number of Diabetic Patients ~ 33 million.