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TIL Facebook is cited as a factor in 20% of US divorces

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78y9p TIL British military scientists tested mustard gas on Indians by sending hundreds of Indian soldiers into gas chambers and exposed them to mustard gas
neAoG TIL that in 1403, at the Battle of Shrewsbury when future King Henry V of England was 16 he was shot in the face by an arrow. The royal physician, while using honey as an antiseptic, crafted a specially designed tool to successfully extract the embedded arrowhead without doing any further damage.
xnag TIL the only mosquito-free place outside of Antarctica is Iceland. Researchers are not positive why Iceland has escaped their wrath, but have a few theories about it.
VBVX8 TIL that the then-president of Kappa Sushi, who used to be an executive at Hama Sushi from 2014 to 2017, was arrested in 2022 for obtaining data from Hama Sushi. The data includes monthly sales figures & prices at which Hama Sushi bought its seafood. He received the data from his former colleague.
WkDod TIL That more than 24 billion gallons of combined untreated sewage and stormwater is dumped into the Great Lakes each year.