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TIL Washington DC isn't in a state

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4k6Gw TIL that expensive "crystal" (e.g. Waterford, Swarovski, Lalique) is actually just glass made with (most notably) lead oxide. Depending on the year and brand of your crystal, ingestion of lead is a possibility.
6EKmW TIL that Mountbatten chose 15th August as India's independence day because it was the day of Japan’s surrender in World War II.
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