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TIL that Nickelodeon’s green slime earned its nickname “GAK” after the street name for heroine due to the crew of “Double Dare!”’s recreational drug usage.

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p7ve TIL a side effect of the drug Clomipramine is a yawngasm, which makes affected users orgasm every time they yawn.
4kVdR TIL that steel wool actually gains weight when it is burned, due to oxygen molecules combining with iron.
LQxy0 TIL that Ian Fleming (who created James Bond) also wrote Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang.
nWJjG TIL the Woodstock 1999 festival was so ill-prepared for the crowd size that portable toilets overflowed and there was no shade from the heat. Attendees started playing in mud to cool off unaware it was contaminated by waste leaking from toilets leading to many cases of trench mouth and trench foot.
Y7BrW TIL about the “Crypt of Civilization”, a 2000-Cubic-Foot time capsule, sealed in 1940. It is set to be opened 6,173 years from its sealing, in the year 8113.