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TIL that salted butter can be left out of the fridge indefinitely... the salt soaks up the moisture in the butter that would otherwise be a breeding ground for bacteria

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kll4 TIL 80% of antibiotics in the U.S. are given to farm animals, and 80% of pig farms, sheep farms, and cattle feedlots use low levels of antibiotics in feed and water. Evidence shows staph bacteria can pass from humans to pigs, evolve resistance to antibiotics, and then pass back into humans.
j6LkR TIL about Iron Mountain a company that operates massive Data centers. They have like 1400 worldwide including underground facilities in former limestone mines which makes them highly secure and energy efficient.
b9enZ TIL that the practice of binding babies' heads (known as artificial cranial deformation) was predominant in France as late as the 20th century.
67aQ TIL that originally Mr. T’s gold chains came from customers at the night club where he worked. People had either lost them or left them behind after a fight.
vPyJx TIL Founder's Hall, a $4 million museum devoted to telling the story of Canada’s birth, located blocks away from the site of the 1864 Charlottetown Conference, shut down due to lack of interest. Visitors dropped from 40,000 a year in 2001 to 13,000 in 2015