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TIL Humans consume the equivalent of a credit card worth of plastic every week: Report

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BRQb TIL that Listerine was invented in the nineteenth century as powerful surgical antiseptic.
p848N TIL the inventor and promoter of leaded petrol, Thomas Midgley Jr, went on to also invent Freon - the first chloroflurocarbon. His last invention, a pully system to help him get out of bed while suffering polio, tangled up one day and strangled him.
XGnj TIL Injecting the blood of young mice into old mice can reverse or slow aging and humans also have these same proteins.
PYl1O TIL the Salvation Army is a religious organization and not just a charity
LJ6V TIL: In 1713, Giuseppe Tartini dreamt that he had sold his soul to the devil. In the dream the devil played a masterful sonata. When Tartini woke up, he composed Violin Sonata in G minor.