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TIL according to top addiction experts, “Giving your child a smartphone is like giving them a gram of cocaine”.

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pYoBN TIL that in ancient Rome, there was a job called a praegustator, a person who tasted food for poison before the emperor ate. It was one of the riskiest jobs in history.
8exY8 TIL the internet weighs as much as one strawberry.
0wgAM TIL: A "hobo" is someone who travels and finds work. A "tramp" travels, but mostly does not work. A "bum" neither travels nor works.
AJvl TIL that Fiji water company ran the slogan “Fiji, because it’s not bottled in Cleveland”. The Cleveland water dept. Took offense, and ran a test determining that Fiji water has more impurities than the cities’ tap water.
wo81 TIL that if the North Koreans used their largest nuclear bomb on the Empire State Building, it wouldn’t even reach Central Park