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TIL Quebec engineering students invented a giant vacuum to clean up microplastics from beaches. At about 3 gallons/minute, it sucks sand into a tank which then separates particles by weight, so plastic can be filtered out.

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LkD40 TIL - Shirley Temple was among the highest profile advocates about breast cancer awareness. In 1972 it was common for doctors not to tell women their diagnosis and to initiate mastectomy without their knowledge or consent because they were thought unable to deal with the news of their affliction.
D99P TIL the most radioactive place on earth isn’t Chernobyl or Fukushima, but a lake in the southern Urals that was once home the the Soviet’s nuclear waste storage area. You could receive a lethal dose of radiation in 30 minutes just standing on the shore of the lake.
odoL TIL that when Friends Debuted 20 Years Ago, People Magazine Gave It a D+ rating, and Time magazine called the cast “dysfunctional morons”
X1ND TIL when serial killer Ted Bundy was 3 years old he put knives in his Aunt’s bed and stood there grinning until she woke up.
W7GB TIL the worst time of the year to get sick is in July, this is when medical school graduates begin residencies. The risk of medical errors and surgical complications increase during this time.