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TIL in Canada you can borrow a radon detector kit from a library (for free).

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kJmg TIL that, according to a June 2012 Gallup poll, 46% of Americans believe that God created humans in their present form about 10,000 years ago.
d87w8 TIL the Black Death was personified by an old woman carrying a rake and a broom. If she used the rake, some would survive in between the teeth of the rake. If she used the broom the whole population of an area would die
b9Vnj TIL that “It’s my Life” from Gwen Stefani was a remake of a song by British New Wave band Talk Talk
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8aErP TIL that in 1906 Eleanor Roosevelt bought a chicken-wire cage to hang out the window of her New York City townhouse for her first child, Anna, to nap in—a practice known as “airing” for city dwelling children