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TIL in 2018, a preschool assistant in Hawaii was fired after mistakenly serving cups of Pin-Sol cleaning fluid to children instead of apple juice.

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7r7Zx TIL: Microorganisms constitute more than 90% of the biomass in the sea. It is estimated that viruses kill approximately 20% of this biomass each day, and that there are 15 times as many viruses in the oceans as there are bacteria and archaea
b9bA4 TIL that the reason people didn’t smile in old photos is because early photography was inspired by painting, where smiling was seen as inappropriate while stern looks appeared more formal for portraits.
X4ar TIL that the first canadian Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, appeared so drunk during a debate that he threw up, he then said “I get sick sometimes not because of drink or any other cause, except that I am forced to listen to the ranting of my honourable opponent.”
BgM4y TIL that, in movies, staccato music is used to indicate comedy because it imitates human laughter
9PL6 TIL that Vick’s inhalers will cause you to test positive for Meth on drug tests