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TIL that nothing bad happens when one eats Silica Gel, those little packets with “do not eat” stamped on the side.

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P17wE TIL the director of Pretty Woman (Garry Marshall) also did Princess Diaries, both are odes to San Francisco with many of the exact same actors, characters, and scenes.
RA8a TIL that the inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, has one regret: adding the double slash // to URLs. In retrospect, he says, it was totally unnecessary.
8aLjG TIL of the Heaven's Gate cult who believed an alien space ship was trailing a comet. Several dozen people joined the "Heaven's Gate Away Team" and committed a series of ritual suicides. Among the victims, Thomas Nichols, brother of actress Nichelle Nichols who played Uhura in the original Star Trek.
dDmo9 TIL about actor Jonathan Kendrick Lewis who was arrested three times between 2011 and 2012. In September 2012, he bludgeoned his landlady and her cat to death before falling off the roof of her house where he had been renting accommodation.
mxKbR TIL that scorpions glow under a black light.