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TIL that Plutonium is so toxic that if 500g of plutonium dust released into the air, it would be sufficient to kill nearly 2 million people. It is just due to heavy metal poison effects, not radioactivity. This makes the toxicity of plutonium roughly equivalent to that of nerve gas.

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R5ey9 TIL that in 1938, an experimental Mercedes-Benz set the public-road speed record at 432 km/hr (269 mph) on the autobahn. This record would last for almost 80 years.
E1GRo TIL "bully insurance" is offered by companies in France and Japan to cover property damaged or stolen by other children, broken bones and shattered eyeglasses.
rRPG4 TIL Chance the Rapper continued his SNL skit character Lazlo Holmes, a hilarious uninformed Hockey announcer into a series of real interviews with NHL players and coaches.
4Xb96 TIL about Kunyaza, a sexual practice endemic to Rwanda which leads to female ejaculation 90% of the time and which is traditionally combined with another cultural practice: labia enlongation
wL1AP TIL that if the tense your legs very hard when you stand up after sitting for a while, you won’t become dizzy or lightheaded