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TIL that there are blue bandaids that have metal in them so that they can be found by a metal detector if they fall off a worker in the food preparation industry.

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5pZR TIL When Tupac first started rapping, he was attending the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he studied theater, ballet, and other forms of art. He loved his classes and would have graduated if he hadn’t been evicted due to his mom being a member of the Black Panther Party.
Q7ep TIL “Smarties” (U.S.) were first made after WWI using repurposed gunpowder pellet machines, which gave them their shape and texture.
6E0DY TIL that "Billion" is the European name for "Trillion" in the US (10^12) and "Trillion" is the European name for "Quintillion" in the US (10^18).
j6BLa TIL of a variant of diabetes called 'diabetes insipidus', caused by problems with the hormone that regulates water retention and urine production. Sufferers can pee up to 20L per day.
kO1GE TIL Lady Godiva, a medieval noblewoman made a deal with her husband to ride through town on horse, naked, in exchange for lower public taxes. She did, but told everyone to look away. One man … Tom … took a peek and was then struck blind. This is the origin of the term “Peeping Tom”