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TIL gold can be very toxic if it's in a biologically active compound. A common use for gold salts is rheumatoid arthritis.

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B00y TIL that Jews and Christians are considered “protected minorities” in Iran, and have seats reserved for them in the Iranian Parliament.
6EJbZ TIL that the American Academy of Pediatrics advises that one should never spank their children or verbally abuse them, ever.
xVZeb TIL Prince had a bank vault that held enough unreleased music to put out an album every year for a century.
9YeWm TIL about the Freedom Summer Murders, where 3 Civil Rights workers were abducted and killed by local law enforcement. Despite sufficient evidence, the state of Mississippi refused to prosecute the perpetrators, and some were only convicted of Civil Rights violations and served little time in prison
kJlQB TIL the words "fajita" and "fascіsm" both derive from the Latin word "fasces"