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TIL The phrase 'pipe dream' is an allusion to the dreams experienced by smokers of opium pipes

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AvEd TIL almost 17 million children in the USA lack reliable daily access to food
R7NAw TIL that only 7 companies in the world control almost every single beauty product you buy. These 7 conglomerates own around 182 brands across the globe. They also are responsible for advertising and the way we think about beauty.
W6po TIL that when the Nazi Party held its first book burnings, one of the works destroyed was an 1821 play by Heinrich Heine containing the famous line: “Where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people.”
VMZ4G TIL that Jackson Mountain, located in the Presidential Range of New Hampshire, is named after Charles Thomas Jackson, a state geologist in the 19th century.
d8ybK TIL that the continent of Antarctica was discovered so recently in human history that the first undisputed landing of humans on Antarctica did not occur until 24 January, 1895.