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TIL no child has been poisoned by Halloween candy. Exception, one by a family member.

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ZVjv TIL Texas no longer offers a special “last meal” to condemned inmates. Instead, the inmate is offered the same meal served to the rest of the unit.
D1dp TIL that although botox is commonly used to reduce wrinkles, it is also the most toxic substance known to man, a spoonful of the protein has the potential to kill 1.2 billion people.
ZpXjD TIL that long before we started saying 'LOL' on the internet, the Dutch have been using 'lol' to mean fun since the Middle Ages - and it's just a wild coincidence
VMvmp til of r.a.p.p. (rockers against pay-to-play), a group in los angeles in the late eighties who organized protests against hollywood music venues that required performers to buy a large amount of pre-sale tickets before they would book the aforementioned act
PY64O TIL: Scientists found microbes buried beneath the sea floor that divide once every 10,000 years and are as much as 100 million years old.