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TIL that a treatment for food impaction (food stuck in throat) in 1983 was to, effectively, turn the patient's throat into a baking soda volcano

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BAlK TIL that after Kirani James won Grenada’s first-ever Olympic gold medal in 2012, the country was so proud that the government held a giant 3-hour celebratory rally attended by thousands, gave him US$186,000, printed new stamps, named a new stadium after him, and built a museum/gym in his home town.
4E9R TIL Freddy Mercury took Lady Di to a gay bar…
MePPW TIL the Faroe Islands and Greenland are allowed to import 5x more live mussels into Belgium than other countries/territories.
5nw8 TIL that a group of Nuns is called a Superfluity, Cobblers a Drunkenship, and (wild) Cats a Destruction. Here is a huge list of Collective Nouns.
Z8GEQ TIL Spanish Civil War jail cells were built like 3-D modern art paintings in order to torture prisoners