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TiL The most common ingredient in bacterial soap is triclosan. It is never completely removed during water treatment and when it arrives at the ocean it is toxic to marine life.

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7Zpx TIL If you are a federally licensed gun dealer and your license is revoked because you’ve engaged in misconduct, your entire inventory is deemed your personal collection. You can then can sell it without doing any background checks on your customers.
xV4W0 TIL: Sun Quan, Emperor of Wu in ancient China, ordered his son Sun Ba to kill himself and exiled Sun He as he was fed up with their rivalry over the throne. He then made his youngest crown prince.
XEym8 TIL that pet dogs (or wolves) have been a part of human culture since before writing, alcohol, or even agriculture.
a8rnZ TIL For “no direction Home”. The iconic “Judas” moment And the onstage colour footage of “like a rolling stone”in Dylan’s 1966 Manchester concert, originally recorded by D. A. Pennebaker, was found in 2004 in a pile of water-damaged film recovered from Dylan’s vault.
EgOx0 TIL that there is a device called the Nasal Ranger that allows for the quantification of how smelly an odor is.