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TIL that in 1997 an Economist at the Mercatus Center Argued that the EPA "not taken into account that smog-free skies would result in more cases of skin cancer"

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J170B TIL the Domesday Book, the oldest public legal record in England, from a survey in 1086. Shires were visited by royal officers, who held a public inquiry in the shire court. The unit of inquiry was the Hundred (a Hundred was comprised of ten Tithes of ten households). (Wapentakes in east England).
pAnN TIL Oregon state has a lake that drains every winter into a lava tube, turns into a meadow during the spring, and then turns back in to a lake in time for summer
Y7Bj7 TIL the Buffalo Bills lost 4 straight Super Bowls.
8aJx8 TIL that the often quoted 10:1 ratio of bacterial cells to human cells is actually closer to around 1:1
VlyD TIL because of the land shortage around Tokyo there is a planned project to build a pyramid-shaped building 14 times higher than the pyramids at Giza that would house about 1,000,000 people off the coast of Tokyo. All in one building. It’s called the Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid.