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TIL that a sitting individual generates roughly one million dust particles per minute

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4kvAb TIL the 2008 writers’ strike resulted in the first season of Breaking Bad being two episodes shorter and prevented the killing off of Hank Schrader (Dean Norris), who had originally been planned for elimination during the first season.
wAQJ TIL that when Nadia Comaneci achieved the first perfect 10.00 score in gymnastics, the scoreboard wasn’t even capable of showing 2 digits. Instead it showed 1.00
78GP TIL that in Russia, to combat low birth rates, Lenin created “Conception Day,” a holiday where citizens didn’t have to go to work so they could try and make babies.
JYx8V TIL that the mine car sequence in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was originally to have appeared in Raiders of the Lost Ark, after the Ark is opened, and would have showed Indy and Marion loading the Ark on a mine car to escape with the rest of the Nazis in pursuit.
5YyYQ TIL Snapping Turtles were used to find dead bodies in rivers, ponds, and lakes before scuba gear was invented. (Last paragraph of article)