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TIL the term "chemist" is derived from "alchemist"

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PbZg TIL that in Soviet Russia, due to strict censorship of music, there was a black market for Beatles records that had been etched onto used x-ray film. Some would sell for an entire month’s salary. The records earned the name “music on the bones.”
R7gB1 TIL the Chinese takeout box was an American invention originally designed to hold oysters and is rarely used for food in Asian countries
5nE8 TIL Suicide rates among Native Americans (especially young men) is 70% higher than the suicide rate of the general US population
kOL57 TIL that a group of pandas is called an embarrassment
EgYy0 TIL about the 'zombie ant fungus', A.K.A. Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. The spores can permeate an ants exoskeleton, use it as a source of nutrition and take over its biological controls, forcing it to leave the colony and head for more humid climates to facilitate growth and release more spores.