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TIL That There Were Volcanoes on the Moon During the Dinosaur Age

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eXn6 TIL Swedish blood donors first receive a ‘Thank you’ text when they initially donate blood, but they also recieve a text whenever their blood is used to help someone.
0PDj TIL in 1998 40% of antibiotics in the United States went to livestock. By 2011 that had risen to 80%.
wNQJ TIL an Austrian woman’s firestove exploded when she used a piece of wood that grew around a WWII grenade that was stuck in it
JY6ak TIL Stephen Colbert’s father and 2 brothers died in a plane crash when he was 10. His improv teacher told him “you gotta learn to love the bomb” and as a result, years later he came to realize “I love the thing that I most wish had not happened.”
deQ7 TIL a black man in the mid 1960’s, not allowed to join or play at the local country clubs, built his own golf course using his own land and taught the neighborhood kids golf for free.