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TIL that Mass is the only one of 7 fundamental measurments we still use a physical example of.

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VMQDk TIL K9 "Officer Benny", a 2-year-old rescue Labrador Retriever, is Washington state's first wildlife crime detection dog. He is trained to find illegal shipments such as rhino horn, bear gallbladder, shark fin, firearms, spent casings, and elephant ivory.
VMwKD TIL That green peppers are just unripe versions of red peppers
KYy0w TIL that dental cavities are usually filled with a mercury-based alloy. Dental offices typically disposed of the excess by pouring it down the drain, a practice that was only outlawed in the United States in 2017.
Y7G0Z TIL hot spots fed by mantle plumes can result in lava floods in intraplate regions. These results in much more lava (hundreds of thousands of cubic kilometers of basalt) being released than regular eruptions and create flood basalts.
6L17 TIL Pope Francis said The Big Bang does not contradict divine intervention and evolution is not opposed to the notion of Creation