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TIL that Crystal Glass gains its properties from high lead content, making it dangerous to consume food from the 'fancy' crystal glassware

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4e0R TIL that Su Hui, a fourth century Chinese poet, wrote a poem in the form of a twenty-nine by twenty-nine character grid. Each line can be read forward or backwards, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. This arrangement allows for 2,848 different readings.
4VaX TIL Apple doesn’t pay for product placement in TV and movies, yet it’s products appeared in 891 tv shows in 2011 alone.
jN67j TIL of Douglas Bader, a British World War 2 pilot who had more than 22 aerial victories, survived being a P.O.W whilst attempting multiple escapes, befriended a German ace pilot... All whilst missing both his legs.
j6ZDM TIL about the Green Children of Woolpit: In the 12th century, two children with green skin and strange clothing appeared in a village in England. The children were taken in by a local family and eventually learned to speak English, but their origins remain a mystery.
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