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TIL despite movies and television, never put a raw steak or other raw meat on a black eye. The bacteria on raw meat poses a high risk of infection, and this method of treating a black eye has no scientific basis.

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bGxQ TIL that Macklemore changes the number of lives he has seen Oxycontin take when performing Otherside live whenever he loses a friend to the drug. He’s gone from 3 to 6.
d8kOj TIL the now-forgotten Booth Tarkington was once considered one of the greatest American novelists, mentioned in the same breath as Mark Twain
OlBY TIL according to a poll in the year 2000, the Japanese believe that their best invention of the 20th century was instant noodles.
yQ5Ea TIL there is a fixed set of taxi drivers in New York, and it costed over 1 million dollars to buy a license as recent as 2014. Thanks to companies like uber however these licenses currently cost under $200,000 each.
LkdYd TIL of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB/MI6 double agent. If he required MI6 rescue, he was to stand on a street corner in Moscow at 730pm on a Tuesday holding a safeway bag, wearing a grey cap. MI6 would acknowledge by walking past him eating a chocolate bar. MI6 monitored this street corner for 10 years.