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TIL that there is a practice in China for reusing fatbergs from the sewers as cooking oil.

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yVeBl TIL Minneapolis uses a dozen clams to test the cleanliness of the city's drinking water
kJrEB TIL saturation divers have to live weeks in a pressurized environment
KORl9 TIL There is a phenomenon that occurs to 5-10% of sunburn victims called “Hell’s itch” or “suicide itch” which causes an excruciating and maddening itch.
BreKK TIL The world's first television commercial aired on July 1, 1941was only 10 seconds long, and was an advertisement for Bulova watches. It cost the company a total of $9.
WxrB TIL that in the novel Around the World in Eighty Days, not once do they travel by hot-air balloon. In fact, the text dismisses the idea as “highly risky and, in any case, impossible.”