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TIL of Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha. Her research showed that children in the city of Flint, Michigan had elevated levels of lead in their blood due to the contaminated water supply

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jegp TIL Breyer’s has cheapened up on the ingredients they use so much that it is no longer “Ice Cream”. They have to call it “Frozen Dairy Dessert”.
x68mk TIL HMS Terror disappeared in the 1830s, somewhere in Northern Canada. Expeditions to find it, from 2010-14 ignored Inuit reports of a wreck and focused elsewhere. When Inuit Ranger Sammy Cogvik insisted they change course, the ship was found in under 3 hours - in namesake Terror Bay
LVb0 TIL there is a punctuation mark that exists for the purpose of expressing irony.
69LGJ TIL Winslow Homer had no formal training as an artist. He was largely self-taught and learned much of his craft through his work as a commercial illustrator and through independent study.
wv11 It would take 1.1 million mosquitoes to completely drain a human’s blood.