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TIL dead skin cells are a main ingredient in household dust

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GAgoJ TIL Porsche, Bentley, and Lamborghini all raise bees and have massive apiaries at their HQs
4kN6J TIL: Helium, the kind we suck from balloons at parties, is a finite, non-renewable resource that’s only recoverable in a few locations around the world. It’s also needed for MRIs, microchips, and fiber optic cables.
ADRkn TIL In 2015, Tu Youyou became the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize, for helping to create an anti-malaria medicine. In China, she is being called the "three noes" winner: no medical degree, no doctorate, and she's never worked overseas
p8WWO TIL Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, has casually studied subatomic physics, cosmology, biology and psychology throughout his life and frequently encourages harmony between science and Buddhism
JYLPQ TIL although Benjamin Franklin never tried to get the turkey as the national bird, he did think eagles were bad moral creatures and that turkeys were much more respectable.