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TIL that Hydras, tiny freshwater animals, have to rip their own skin apart just to open their mouth

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MKYB TIL Police in the UK have shot dead 5 people in the last 4 years. In the US, this figure is 1600
bae4 TIL approximately 62.5 percent of the 24,000 chemicals added to the TSCA inventory since 1982 cannot be “meaningfully identified by the public” because their names are claimed as “trade secrets.” If a chemical’s identity is not known, it is very difficult, if not impossible to monitor human exposure
l5g7 TIL United States Chamber of Commerce is not a government agency but a conservative lobbyist group.
apm0 TIL movie theater popcorn costs more per ounce than filet mignon
rNXre TIL Olympians live 5 years longer on average than the general population