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TIL: Natural rubber comes from trees, specifically the latex tapped from rubber trees which is coagulated and rolled to remove excess water

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09R5 TIL of a little-known French law that if you were born in one of the USA states that was created from the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 or any other former French territory, the five-year waiting period for french citizenship may be waived.
pYw4N TIL the capstone of an ancient Egyptian pyramid was found in 1900, it's made of black basalt and weighs 4.5 tonnes .
6E0j7 TIL that the bubonic plague still circulates in New Mexico among prairie dogs, and that dogs can catch infected fleas and spread it to humans
XEbVj TIL in 1970, dynamite was used in a failed attempt to disintegrate a whale carcass on the Oregon coast. After detonation, most of the carcass remained on the beach, and the remainder flew into cars and people near the beach.
4kdMw TIL: One scientific theory suggests that the passage of time is due to our expanding universe. As the universe expands, it pulls time with it because space and time are linked as one. So if the universe were to stop expanding and begin to contract, then time would reverse