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TIL every bite of cheese you eat contains over a trillion bacteria.

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x6VG5 TIL, a woman mistakenly snorted a line of LSD containing 550 times the usual recreational dose, mistaking it for cocaine. The woman had been suffering from chronic foot pain for 20 years, but found that the massive dose of LSD allowed her to reduce and eventually stop morphine consumption.
6EdX8 TIL If humans keep fishing at the current pace, there will be no more fish left in the oceans by 2048: The existing world fishing fleet is two to three times larger than the oceans can support and 85 percent of the world’s fish populations are either nearly extinct or on the way to extinction.
ADjxw TIL that 401ks are designed to supplement traditional pensions not replace them and they place greater investment risk on the employee than the employer
XE5Bj TIL that in 1914, a 9 year old Irish boy wrote to the British army, requesting to be sent to the front becuase he was good at riding his bicycle and becuase he would often win fights with lads twice as big.
WkYg4 TIL when you get a sunburn, it’s not your skin cells being damaged by the sun and dying, it’s your skin cells’ DNA being damaged by the sun and them killing themselves so they don’t turn into cancer.