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TIL of Cinnabar. A bright scarlet form of Mercury(II) Sulfide and the most toxic mineral on Earth. Being sent to Spanish cinnabar mines in the Middle Ages was considered a death sentence.

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Ypgp7 TIL bacon & eggs is considered breakfast food thanks to a single marketing campaign by a bacon company.
D04g TIL Dogecoin is worth more than Vietnam’s national currency
loO5 TIL that a man was tried and convicted of raping and murdering a 16-year-old girl in Texas. When DNA analysis was discovered the court of appeals denied him a retrial even though he was not a match.
e4wL TIL: There’s a sports team in Liberal, KS named the Liberal Bee Jays. A semi-professional baseball team, they have won five national championships and 13 state championships. The Bee Jays have been coached by three major league managers and have sent 165 players to the major leagues.
dvw9 TIL when Adolf Eichmann, aka “the architect of the Holocaust”, was on trial for his war crimes, he couldn’t afford the attorney he wanted. Not wanting any reason to question the legitimacy of the trial, the Israeli government paid for Eichmann to be represented by the lawyer of his choosing.