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TIL that q-tips are 100% biodegradable and can be composted. Just make sure to not compost them if you’re using them with something that can’t be composted (I.e. removing nail polish with acetone)

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5ner TIL the only senator to vote against the US entering the Second World War, after the Pearl Harbor attack, defended her position by saying “As a woman, I can’t go to war and I refuse to send anyone else.” Republican leaders from Montana – her state – demanded she change her vote, but she refused.
6EDBQ TIL nobody's done the intricate calculations to find the average distance between a human and a spider.
oQgL TIL at one point in the late sixties, a plane was hijacked and diverted to Cuba more than once a week.
gr0yy TIL of the Rio Negro Bridge at Manaus, Brazil, a huge and expensive bridge that is the only crossing point of the Amazon or any major tributary. It has been called "a quintessential bridge to nowhere" and does absolutely nothing to connect Manaus to Brazil's road network
v1nx TIL the word ‘escalate’ did not exist until the invention of the escalator.