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TIL that “cicisbeo” is the male equivalent to a “mistress!”

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l7x97 TIL Most “recycled” plastic ends up in landfills.
5Zrr TIL of the one-electron universe postulate, proposed by theoretical physicist John Wheeler. Its hypothesis is that there is only one electron in existence that is constantly moving throughout time
78mOL TIL most caffeinated soft drinks use synthetic caffeine, which is now mostly produced in Chinese factories
KOZo6 TIL Utqiaġvik (formerly known as Barrow), Alaska, saw its last sunset for 65 days Monday afternoon, The next sunrise will be Jan. 23 of 2020. the towns population is 4,000
MoJ7 TIL As a kid, Michio Kaku got 400 pounds of transformer steel and 44 miles of copper wire, to create a 6 kilowatt, 10,000 gauss magnetic field on his high school football field. He created a particle accelerator to find antimatter.