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TIL that some cable networks speed up programming so they can fit in more commercials every hour.

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grn57 TIL that the state of Michigan rejected more than 21,000 custom license plates over the past decade for being “offensive” - and you can read them all because providing everything in the system was the only way to fulfill a FOIA request for 1 year of rejections since the system “can’t sort by date”
JYpYl TIL that a healthy person shares their body with around 10,000 species of bacteria, fungi, and other microbes. They compose around 1 to 3 percent of your body mass. So if you are a 200-pound person, up to six pounds of you are not you—but them.
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