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TIL Will Smith actually has a home in Bel-Air

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6K8w TIL Cocaine use can be detected through chemicals left in your fingerprints.
QRoa TIL Earth’s mantle holds several oceans worth of water.
9wxOB TIL Jack Daniels operates a volunteer fire department
MnKK TIL that in the 18th century John Harrison claimed that he could build a clock to keep time to within a second over 100 days; it triggered widespread ridicule at his time. The clock had been built to his exact specifications in 2015; it was declared the “most accurate mechanical clock”
9Yv7p TIL of "Doctor" Linda Hazzard, who in the early 20th century killed at least a dozen patients, who coincidentally had just added her to their wills, by "treating" them with 30-40 day total starvation therapy. At first she couldn't be prosecuted because her patients signed up willingly.