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TIL Bar soap is way more environmentally friendly than liquid soap. Carboon footprint to make liquid soap is 25% larger and requires 5 times more energy to produce

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yVZ6p TIL the Lincoln Highway (1910s) made driving across America easier. However, muddy or flooded roads were expected and drivers needed camping gear. The road guide included tips for each town. E.g. Fish Springs, Utah travelers could "build a sagebrush fire" for a local team to find/rescue them.
781gb TIL: Due to animals not being sufficient enough, humans were experimented on by the medical team of the Manhattan Project. Civilians nationwide were injected radioactive elements in secrecy. The experiment only became public in the 1990s after all the test subjects died. Their families got money.
DA4e TIL Woody Harrelson’s father was an organised crime figure who, in 1982, confessed to the assassination of JFK.
kJlGd Til: On July 4th, 1778 George Rogers clark, a colonel from Virginia, took Kaskaskia, Illinois, without firing a single shot.
OGG06 TIL that in 2017 scientists at U of Bonn found that the same wine tastes better when labelled with a higher price tag, a phenomenon known as the “marketing placebo effect.” Participants were given two samples, one €6 and one €18. Most rated the latter higher though they were from the same bottle.