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TIL that every year, 25 million pounds of Mardi Gras beads are distributed in New Orleans, and the plastic beads contain toxic levels of lead, bromine, arsenic, phthalate plasticizers, halogens, cadmium, chromium, mercury and chlorine.

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gr1E8 TIL that in 1984 a group of men crossed the ocean Atlantic, in a 13.6-meter (45-foot) by 5.8-meter rudderless log raft with a single sail
WPxX TIL Wil Wheaton suffers from generalized anxiety disorder and chronic depression. He supports mental health nonprofit organizations in raising awareness for these conditions.
b6kj TIL that a man who gave away his fortune to charity also donated a kidney to a stranger, noting that the chances of dying as a result of the procedure were about 1 in 4,000 and “to withhold a kidney from someone who would otherwise die means valuing one’s own life at 4,000 times that of a stranger”
vPjlx TIL that American milk is pasteurized using a high-temperature short-time pasteurization, that gives a shelf life of 7 to 10 days. Europe however, uses an ultra-high-heat pasteurization which results in about a 3 month shelf life.
XEbw8 TIL Stalin’s birth name was Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili