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TIL Cinco de Mayo is only popular among the Chicanos in the US. In Mexico, it’s not even a national holiday.

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kEmB TIL there’s a drug called Actos, which side-effects include an increase risk of bladder cancer by 83 percent, heart failure, liver failure and bone fractures. It’s been banned in France and Germany, but still legal in the United States.
4Xj8o TIL The intensity of sound is measured in decibels (dB), the decibel scale is logarithmic. Basically a 40dB sound is not twice as loud as 20dB one, but a hundred times louder. Also one alarm clock ringing at 70dB, two alarm clocks ringing together don’t hit 140dB on scale but measure 73dB.
aLGA TIL During WW II Britain stopped selling food to Ireland in order to persuade them to drop neutrality and enter the war. Ireland responded by cutting off all exports of Guinness. The supplying of food was resumed.
R7pn8 TIL that a mule was found to be alive after being trapped in a coal mine for over a month following a massive landslide. Charlie the horse survived by eating bark from timber supports and drinking from puddles, only to die shortly after his rescue when his rescuers overfed him on oats and brandy.
b6ZMQ TIL that we have the skull of Mary Magdalene housed in a basilica in France. It was found in 1279 with a wooden tablet wrapped in wax that said, “Hic requiescit magdelenae corpus Mariae,” Latin for, “Here lies the body of Mary Magdalene.”