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TIL that the cheapest and cleanest means of transport for scientists in the Antarctica is a tent on a sled powered by a giant Kite

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LkEMp TIL that in 1833 Britain used 40% of its national budget to free all slaves in the Empire. The loan for the Slavery Abolition Act was so large that it was not paid off until 2015.
Vpk4 TIL that some people with OCD suffer from “sensorimotor obsessions”, the hyperawareness of and focus on bodily processes or sensations such as the act of breathing, blinking, swallowing, or their own heartbeat.
wLJbJ TIL that 10 years ago, knowing a pandemic would create a shortage in necessary face masks, research was done to test homemade masks of different materials. Hanes sweatshirts weren't too shabby.
EgEA0 TIL while chemical weapons were produced by the Nazis, they were not widely deployed. Other than fear of retaliation, factors which influenced this decision may have been that Adolf Hitler was gassed by British troops in 1918, and that the Nazis never developed effective gas masks for horses
Gwj TIL there is a fish that has the dental characteristics of a human and has killed people by chewing their testicles off.