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TIL Corelle's dishware before 2005 has very HIGH amounts of lead in it

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kOBZ7 TIL of Dean Karnazes; Ultra-Marathon runner who ran 350 miles (560 km) in 80 hours and 44 minutes without sleep in 2005
9Ye5Q TIL that while 4-8% of people have at least one food allergy, a large proportion of people in developed countries believe they have food allergies when they actually do not have them.
mxAYM TIL of the 'Banksy of Grammar', who at night would correct punctuation on shop fronts in the city of Bristol
PYbbg TIL that in the cartoon series The Jetsons, George Jetson work week consists of an hour a day, two days a week
VMlb0 TIL about Mill Ends Park, the world's tiniest city park. It's a circle 2 feet (0.61 m) across in the median of a street in Portland, Oregon. It was intended as the site for a light pole, but when no light pole appeared, someone planted flowers instead. It was named an official city park in 1976.