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TIL researchers are able to study atmospheric composition, stretching back thousands of years, by examining air bubbles trapped in ice

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D1dXj TIL about Alexander Bogdanov, a Russian physician who experimented with blood transfusion to gain eternal youth. He died after injecting himself with blood from a student infected with malaria and tuberculosis, who also may have been the wrong blood type.
W76W4 TIL Peter Billingsley who played Ralphie in “A Christmas Story” also played the head elf in “Elf”.
9ww7m TIL that the town of Las Vegas,Nevada, was originally founded by Mormon missionaries
PjG TIL that mammals have a reflex to reduce the intensity of loud noises. It’s possible to exploit this by simply humming or speaking. Loud noises don’t just sound less intense, less sound is actually transmitted to the inner ear and then to the brain.
KOOKJ TIL: Karl Marx had terrible personal hygeine and was perpetually covered in sores.