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TIL Cyanide comes from bamboo

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P1Zae TIL that more than half of the costs for a major sewage treatment plant in the Kaliningrad oblast was financed from international sources because they would otherwise dump all their sewage into the Baltic Sea, thus polluting it for all its European neighbors
MolW TIL - Brad Pitt appears in Fight Club at least six times before Tyler’s first scene. Once on a moving walkway, once as a waiter on tv, and 4 times in subliminal single frame shots.
4yQo TIL that MI5 once had a plan to use Gerbils to detect terrorists/spies at airports, as their sense of smell can acutely detect increased adrenalin in people. The project was scrapped when the Gerbils proved unable to tell the difference between terrorists and those afraid of flying.
YjxG TIL in a lawsuit where a company called SCO tried to sue IBM for $5 billion over their alleged use of Unix code in Linux, an IBM lawyer was quoted as saying “If you proceed with this horseshit the sky over Utah will blacken with lawyers”
86EK TIL That 53% of the flags in the world contain blue “which is the most popular color in the world”