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TIL you can make $13,000 a year by selling your poop

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ogyE TIL Nazi Germany had the most powerful anti-smoking campaign in the world. Smoking was banned on public transportation, restricted in public spaces, and was openly criticized by Hitler himself.
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epvgn TIL the most effective pollinators of common ivy are yellow jackets. Yellow jackets scored the highest on the ‘Pollination potential PP index’ (a measure of pollinator effectiveness) out of all the insects examined (which included bees and flies).
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