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TIL that prescription bottles are typically orange or light brown because those colors prevent ultraviolet light from degrading the potentially photosensitive contents through photochemical reactions, while still letting enough visible light through for the contents to be easily visible

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ne7Eb TIL : Doctors are transplanting poop from healthy people into the stomachs of people with certain illnesses and it is healing them at a rate of 91-98%.
yEXM TIL when you become blackout drunk it’s not that you forget what happened later on, you were never creating memories to begin with
yaQ8 TIL That facing defeat and surrounded by the Roman army, Hannibal sent oxen with torches tied to them toward the Roman camp, causing the Romans to send their entire army to meet the oxen while Hannibal and his men escaped through a mountain pass that the Romans had been blocking before the deception
d8ryB TIL that the MRI of dogs’ brains show that they see their owners as family and prioritize the smell of humans over everything
69j8 TIL that The Learning Channel (TLC) was founded by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and NASA; it was distributed at no cost by NASA satellite.