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TIL: The smell of rotting potatoes can kill you

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8ooX TIL there was a prison warden so loved that when he retired, 100 inmates pooled together their money to throw him a party.
6WK7 TIL there’s 5 gigabits of useless background noise transmitted every second through the Internet (circa 2010)
Z8v9Q TIL the UK has their own version of the Ivy League called the Golden Triangle which has some of the best colleges in the world
mw5o TIL London is riddled with dozens of ‘Plague Pits’ of the victims of the Bubonic Plague. Some pits are so thick with bodies it was impossible to drill through the mass of skeletal remains during construction of the Tube
5A6D TIL Red Lobster lost $3.3 million dollars during a 7 week promotion in 2003. Each restaurant started losing money on the third plate of crab legs served.