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TIL talcum powder is made from a material which is often mined from locations with deposits of asbestos

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nepaP TIL, 5 exabytes of information was created between 12k BC and 2003 AD. But that rate has gone up to every two days by 2003. An exabyte is 1,024 petabytes, while a petabyte is 1,024 terabytes.
yQdll TIL that the Krypteia, a super secretive special unit in ancient Sparta, was the unit given the dubious task of controling their slave population by annual massacres. Even more messed up: they had to do the killings in secrecy and was punished by whipping if anyone caught them.
VBQVp TIL about a man who committed suicide then had his heart donated to another man who also committed suicide after marrying the first man's widow.
6EQE7 TIL Batman once saw through the Martian Manhunter's disguise because he connected Manhunter's then alias, Hino Rei, with his Martian heritage, i.e. the alter ego of Sailor Mars, which means he had either read, watched, or researched about Sailor Moon.
pY0we TIL the feast day of St. Nicholas (Santa Claus) isn’t on December 25th, but on December 6th