TIL Pablo Escobar's Medellin drug cartel wrote off 10% of their money annually due to soilage because it would lie untouched for so long that rats would eat it or it would become water damaged.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/amazing-story-of-how-pablo-escobar-1014117
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TIL that in 1973, Canadian Rosella Bjornson became the first female commercial airline pilot in North America.
https://www.alberta.ca/aoe-rosella-bjornson
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TIL of Ziad Fazah. He claims to be able to speak, read and understand 59 languages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziad_Fazah
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TIL scientists still don't know how Acetaminophen works to relieve pain and reduce inflammation
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TIL auto insurance premiums are 67% higher in New York State than the national average.
https://insurify.com/car-insurance/report/
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TIL: That time and time again without punishment, Starbucks has been using slave labor to their advantage, even incorporating child slave labor numerous times
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TIL about the symbiotic relationship of wolves and ravens. Ravens will lead wolves to prey so that they can take a portion of the leftovers.
https://www.yellowstone.org/naturalist-notes-wolves-and-ravens/
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TIL that many early phone lines were "party lines" that anyone who picked up the phone could listen in on; customers had to pay an extra monthly fee to upgrade to a private line.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony)
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TIL about "terra preta" ("black soil"), a very dark and fertile regenerating soil present in the Amazon Basin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta
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TIL that men are much more likely to be hit by lightning than women
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TIL that cows kill more people in the US on average than sharks do
https://www.cnet.com/science/afraid-of-sharks-these-are-the-animals-more-likely-to-kill-you/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1cki5w8/til_that_cows_kill_more_people_in_the_us_on/
TIL that, due to precession, the dates of Zodiac's signs should be shifted to a month back with respect to when they where defined around 2000 years ago
https://www.astronomy.com/science/your-zodiac-sign-is-probably-wrong/
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TIL most animals can see UV light — humans being blind to it is the exception not the rule.
https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/ultraviolet-light-animals/
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TIL you are supposed to use a new section of floss for each tooth (not one string of floss for the entire mouth)
https://www.ada.org/en/resources/ada-library/oral-health-topics/floss
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TIL: Of the ~16 million Americans who served during WWII, there are around 119,550 who are still remaining
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/wwii-veteran-statistics
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TIL the Amazon rainforest was the result and product of centuries of indigenous soil management rather than naturally formed as previously supposed.
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TIL that each U.S. penny and nickel costs more to mint than it's actually worth
https://money.com/coin-costs-us-mint-solutions/
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TIL Because tungsten and gold have almost identical weights, fake gold bars and coins made from tungsten cannot be identified by the usual method of density testing, and ultrasound has to be used instead.
https://coinsweekly.com/how-to-tell-cheap-tungsten-from-precious-gold/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1c15yzn/til_because_tungsten_and_gold_have_almost/
TIL the average age for new authors is FORTY-TWO
https://laterbloomer.com/late-blooming-writers
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Today I learned the official HTTP error code 418 means the server is a teapot and it refuses to brew coffee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_Protocol
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