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TIL the first (likely) artificial sweetener made by mankind poisoned a lot of Romans, due to its lead acetate content.

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yYb8 TIL Ostrich eggs repel spiders and are incorporated into the chandeliers of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque to prevent cobwebs.
8ayma TIL: humans have developed injections containing nanoparticles which when administered into the eye convert infrared into visible light giving night vision for up to 10 weeks
KO7MB TIL that the black kite, an Australian bird of prey, hunts by starting fires that force their prey out in the open.
R7e16 TIL that of the 120 U.S. deaths attributed to 2005's Hurricane Rita, about 100 of them were Texans who died in the evacuation
nkrB TIL a 16 year-old Brooklyn teen pretended to be a subway conductor and drove a train for over 3 hours before getting caught.