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TIL A man in China has kept himself alive with a homemade dialysis machine for 13 years.

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QJxE6 TIL of the 1971 QANTAS bomb hoax, where a $500,000 ransom was paid to disclose the location of a bomb onboard a QANTAS flight that would detonate if the plane flew below 20,000ft. There was never a bomb on board, and half the ransom is still unrecovered.
0Gwv TIL prescription drugs kill more people than heroin and cocaine combined.
6MDw TIL the word “Guy” originates from Guy Fawkes, the guy who tried to blow up the British Parliament in 1605 and didn’t exist before that.
gMZgW TIL Taco Bell failed to pay two Michigan men who created the Taco Bell Chihuahua mascot, and were court-ordered to pay back $42 million dollars.
QN0Ad TIL that the world's quietest room, an anechoic chamber located at Orfield Laboratories in Minnesota, can drive people to the point of madness. The room is so quiet people can hear their own blood flowing and even the sound of their organs functioning, which can be disorienting and unsettling.