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TIL Paracetamol overdose is one of the leading causes of acute liver failure

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QJ1vX TIL there's a beach in Finistère polluted since 1983 by Garfield telephones coming out of a sunk container
oRVVW TIL that no football club won the French League during the 1992/93 season. After 1st place Marseille lost its title due to a bribery scandal, it was allotted to 2nd place PSG, but the owners of the club, TV chain Canal+, feared the reactions of their subscribers in Marseille and refused it
KOV4E TIL in 2018 Chick-fil-A earned more in sales than McDonald's, Burger King, and Subway combined
6edJ TIL that platform shoes have been around since the 15th century, and were called Chopines. Some exceeded 20 inches, and the wearer typically required a servant to help balance.
p58N TIL That SR-71 pilots sometimes came from bomber aircraft because nobody else had experience in long supersonic flights. A crew taken from a B-58 Hustler ended up setting a world record for longest supersonic flight after flying the SR-71 for over 10 hours… over 15,000 miles. Nonstop.