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TIL there us no safe amount of lead exposure at all; the body thinks it’s calcium, so it goes wherever calcium would. It doesn’t get filtered out - it just accumulates.

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Oag1 TIL 65 nations refused to participate in the 1980 Summer Olympic Games to protest the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Afghanistan wasn’t one of them, sending 11 athletes to compete.
Y1gG TIL the Illuminati was an actual secret society whose goals were “to oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power, and to support women’s education and gender equality.”
awxWJ TIL that Ziggy Marley recorded the theme song "Believe in Yourself" for the children's show Arthur
JYApl TIL during 2005 in Glendale, CA a suicidal man parked his car in front of a commuter train. The train derailed and collided with two additional trains resulting in over a 100 casualties. The man survived and was sentenced to life without parole.
OG8Ka TIL that Maritime silk road is the first inter-continental trade route by Austronesian from 3000 BC spanning from China, India, Arabian Peninsula, Africa, and Europe. As opposed of the famous Silk Road from 100 BC spanning from China to Europe. Making it Austronesian age of discovery