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TIL that high blood pressure can lead to osteoporosis because you pee excessive calcium when you have high blood pressure

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9wNRm TIL that spider webs make amazing natural bandages and blood clotting aids and are incredibly rich in natural anti infection and antibiotic properties. Injured in the woods? Shove a mess of cobwebs on it!
R5nm8 TIL about a hurricane in 1926 that directly hit metro Miami at high-end Category 4 strength. It is speculated that this hurricane contributed to an early start to the Great Depression in the state and would have cost more than $200 billion if it were to occur in modern times.
j6OXp TIL about spy master Garbo who fed false and outdated intel to nazi Germany and had a fake spy network with 27 spies.
GA9WJ TIL that there was an unrecognized proposed state in colonial America called the State of Franklin in what is now eastern Tennessee founded with the intent to be the 14th state.
7K4r TIL vanilla beans are the 2nd most expensive spice in the world due to a current, global vanilla bean crisis caused, in part, by a 2017 hurricane in Madagascar.