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TIL Katt Wiliams has been arrested 13 times and has paid over $190,000 in bail

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E14xp TIL A very tired chemist once spilled UK's entire supply of plutonium(10mg) on a table, and in order to recover it, used a saw to cut out that section of the table, then burned it. He recovered 9.5mg of the plutonium from the ashes.
XE0QE TIL Rio residents rely on an app called "fogo cruzado" (Cross fire) to keep track of all gun battles happening in the city any given day in order to avoid them.
0wjVM TIL in 2019 the US government ran "Crimson Contagion", an exercise simulating the outbreak of a respiratory virus, resulting in 110 million cases, 7.7 million hospitalizations, and 586,000 deaths
rRAGW TIL of "Long Sleeping Disorder" in which the individual affected needs at least 10 to 12 hours of sleep a night. There is no cure, no negative implications, although some link to introversion. It affects only 2% of the entire world population.
E1BX TIL We waste half or more of all the food we produce each year.