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TIL That 29% of L.A.’s air pollution comes from east asia

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ADDOo TIL that Sweet Tarts are just compressed Pixy Stix powder and pouring Pixy Stix into your water like Kool-Aid isn’t that strange. AND Fun-Dip is just Pixy Stix with a candy dip stick. Shouldn’t be this surprised. Just never really thought it but Wanka is a lot like Taco Bell.
wop5P TIL many coroners aren't doctors and they can be appointed or elected to their positions
W7M98 TIL that Canada's 8th largest National park, Wapusk National Park (11,475 square kilometres), doesn't allow tourists, and all researchers must carry a shotgun when visiting due to the risk of polar bear attacks.
gaNX TIL a platinum weight kept in a French vault that defines a perfect kg keeps experiencing minor fluctuations in mass. Now a perfect crystal sphere that took two years to polish and has a fixed number of atoms is being developed as the new standard
NOWe TIL that the head of the CIA had his AOL email account hacked by a teenager in 2015.