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TIL most of the world's Botox is manufactured in Ireland. A couple of pounds/kilos of the raw botulinum neurotoxin used to make it is enough to kill everyone in the world, multiple times over.

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E9wV TIL Boulder, CO has been the least obese U.S. metro area for the past 3 years at 12.5%. Most obese? Southern tip of Texas, 38.5%
a9Mb TIL that men have a line down their scrotum because the labia fuses together when the foetus makes the transition from female to male in the womb
v1Elj TIL: There is a book called "Shadows from the Walls of Death", a book that's not only extremely rare, but also very lethal due to its arsenic content.
neydB TIL Back in 1965 a Senate subcommittee predicted that we'd enjoy 2-hour work weeks by the year 2000. However, In 1991, the average American worker put in 163 more hours on the job than in 1973, according to the sociologist Juliet Schor, the author of “The Overworked American.”
k4EE TIL that German Stalingrad veterans would often break their infantry assault badges as an indication that earning the assault badge in Stalingrad was a different level of achievement than earning it somewhere else