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TIL Weddellite crystals can be found at the bottom of a sea near Antarctica and in kidney stones in the human body.

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aBdZ TIL A small home in Cheyenne, Wyoming is home to 2,000+ shell companies.
g6A9 TIL in 2006, The FBI planted an informant in a South California mosque who pretended to be a radical muslim, and the muslims in the mosque reported him to the FBI
nWpeP TIL that the word Coprolalia (involuntary swearing) comes from the Greek word kópros meaning “dung, feces” and laliā́ meaning “speech”. Essentially translating to Shit-talking.
QN0Yp TIL that the man behind the 2013 “Fedora Guy” meme is actually an actor named Jerry Messing, who starred as Gordon in the 1999 TV series “Freaks and Geeks”.
E1KW7 TIL that for thousands of years, glue has been made by melting dead horses. This practice, although now less frequently, still happens to this day.