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TIL Magic Eraser is basically just extremely fine sandpaper.
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TIL: Continuum, a magazine created to deny the existence of AIDS, shut down when all of it’s editors died of AIDS.
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TIL there is a house in New Orleans, they call it the Rising Sun, but it’s not a brothel as singer Eric Burdon once described it. It's a bed and breakfast run by a Louisianan couple who love the legend and have collected over 40 versions of the Animals' song. Their B&B features ample brothelabilia.
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TIL couples who spend more money on a wedding are more likely to divorce than couples who hold cheaper weddings
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TIL that alchemist Hennig Brand believed that he could distill gold from human urine. After stockpiling 1,500 gallons of the liquid and boiling it, he discovered phosphorus.
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TIL that using his knowledge of telephone systems, Kevin Poulsen, alias “Dark Dante,” hacked the phone lines of a radio station to become the winning caller for a brand new Porsche. He was sentenced to 5 years and banned from using computers for years. Later he reinvented himself as a journalist.