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TIL Baby Owls Sleep Face Down As Their Heads Are Too Heavy
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TIL that Radithor was a "medicine" sold in the 1920s that consisted of water with a bit of dissolved radium. One user, Eben Byers, drank so much of it that most of his jaw literally fell off.
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TIL Mosquitoes pee on us. As they take in a blood meal, they urinate to dispose of the waste products.
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TIL: Dora the Explorer is hugely popular in India and used to teach local languages instead of Spanish.
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TIL During his Presidency Richard Nixon established the EPA & OSHA, ended the Vietnam War, signed into law the Clean Air Act, desegregated southern schools, presided over Apollo 11 lunar landings, opened diplomatic relations with communist China, and initiated a detente with the Soviet Union
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TIL the Liters of Light project uses no electricity to illuminate windowless homes in and beyond the Philippines - their solution uses a recycled plastic bottle with some water and bleach yet provides the equivalent output of a 60-watt bulb