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v9Qj TIL that child chimney sweep apprentices had to crawl through vertical mazes of chimneys and frequently were left to die when they became stuck
6EmPZ TIL that today 60 years ago the strongest earthquake ever recorded occurred (9.5), so strong it sent a 10m tsunami wave 10,000km to Hawaii.
Ww5N TIL that a company in the UK uses the foreskins of circumcised babies to develop an anti-wrinkle cosmetic treatments
O961 TIL using hand sanitizer kills off all your good bacteria and increases your body’s absorption of BPA (main chemical in almost all hard plastics)
Z8njD TIL A California man hunts for 100 year old Levi jeans in abandoned mines, in order to sell them to collectors for $30,000 - $100,000 a pair.