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TIL that donating blood plasma can significantly reduce the levels of PFAs/forever chemicals in your blood

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4XkKb TIL that HAZMAT is short for Hazardous Materials
9YboM TIL that on June 23, 2014 Charles R. Moore a white minister from Texas set himself on fire to protest racism
epEjg TIL The President's House, where George Washington and John Adams lived during their presidencies, was accidentally destroyed in 1951.
NN4J TIL that ABBA member Anni-Frid Lyngstad was a survivor of Nazi Germany’s Lebensborn program, an attempt to selectively “breed” more children with “racially desirable” traits.
oB8Ro TIL Newspeak from "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is based on an actual language proposal - Basic English, a proposed easy-to-learn version of English with only 850 core words.