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TIL that actors usually snort powdered lactose on set and if they’re lactose-intolerant, then vitamin B powder

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Z9GG TIL UNICEF tried to provide clean drinking water for people of the Bengal Delta by drilling wells. The ground was contaminated with Arsenic and ended up poisoning over 50 million people.
gr8Nb TIL At the time that Atari released the home version of Pong in 1974 the computer chip the game used was the highest-performing chip used in a consumer product. It was also Sears best selling product at the time, far exceeding expectations.
xmlk TIL that Black Sabbath’s Cocaine budget in 1972 was $75,000. Roughly $350,000 today.
oBGYL TIL Ainu people are indigenous to Hokkaidō, Japan. They have their own religion, language, and culture. Now fewer than 100 speak the language.
ja4v TIL when 50 deaf Nicaraguan children, who didn’t know sign language, were put in a school together they developed their own sign language. Scientists are still studying the unique spontaneous appearance of language and its ongoing development and introduction of grammar.