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TIL dead skin cells are a main ingredient in household dust

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ADV6d TIL that people actually believe that the Nazis went to the coldest and most inaccessible place on the planet to hunt whales just before WW2 because they needed more fat for their population...
x6l55 TIL the oldest cat ever lived to 38 years and 3 days - 1967 to 2005.
M7Qx0 TIL on 1962, Mississippi Senate expressed its "complete, entire and utter contempt for the Kennedy administration and its puppet courts" about the integration of Ole Miss, when protesting against the admission of James Meredith
x4lk TIL Mark Wahlberg was a violent racist bully in the 80’s. He purposely yelled racial slurs and threw rocks at black people. He also beat a vietnamese man in public.
QJm1e TIL of Magawa, an African giant pouched rat who helped clear landmines left over from the Cambodian civil war from over 225,000 square metres of land. He was capable of sniffing out the TNT in explosives, and could work much faster than humans since he was too light to detonate the mines.