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TIL Enamel is made of powdered glass

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jeQp TIL the word “Armageddon” comes from the Hebrew “Har Megiddo” meaning “Mount of Megiddo” and referring to the place where the Book of Revelation claims the end of the world will begin.
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QN0lp TIL that the drug cocktail used for medically assisted death varies widely and has varying degrees of success in providing comfort- in one instance it took 108 hours to work.
J1JXj TIL that the Hong Kong Jockey Club, which runs horse races in Hong Kong, is the city's biggest single taxpayer, having paid $28.6 billion in 2022, equal to $3,800 for every man, woman, and child in the region.
LJXd TIL one of the biggest contributers to the original Oxford English Dictionary was an inmate at a lunatic asylum and former surgeon from the American civil war, incarcerated for shooting a man in London.