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TIL the world could run out of helium in 25 years…bad news for MRI machines, radiation detection machines and clowns

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MePPW TIL the Faroe Islands and Greenland are allowed to import 5x more live mussels into Belgium than other countries/territories.
X6jP TIL German writer Ernst Jünger ran away at the age of 18, served both WW1 and WW2, earned the iron cross, hung out with Picasso and Cocteau, hated the nazis and did lots of drugs until he died 102 years old.
1JKD TIL Hunter S. Thompson typed out The Great Gatsby in its entirety several times so he would know what it felt like to write a masterpiece
b94LZ TIL During the Second World War, the Japanese army poisoned more than 1,000 water wells in Chinese villages to study cholera and typhus outbreaks. Japanese planes dropped plague-infested fleas over Chinese cities or distributed them by means of saboteurs in rice fields and along roads.
GARN4 TIL that the first ever Cannes Film Festival was canceled after opening night because the events calendar clashed with the opening of World War II.