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TIL in the US, 80% of receipts at major store chains contain "toxic" chemicals

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nW7vr TIL that Xerox built the first personal computer with a mouse-based graphical user interface (GUI) in 1973, 10 years before anyone else. But they couldn't see any reason why anyone would want a PC so they didn't market it
wkEo TIL Nick Offerman (Ron Swanson) is a master woodworker who made a marijuana stash box and “Lord of the Rings styled pipe” to smoke out of.
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