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TIL formaldehyde is an essential metabolite, naturally found in the human body.

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grlk4 TIL that the oft-repeated "fact" of Anthony Hopkins having only 16 minutes of screentime in The Silence Of The Lambs is false. He is also not the shortest performance to win a Lead Acting Oscar.
Zrrv TIL in 2016 a Russian hacker released the World Anti-Doping Agencies records which revealed that despite past denials both Venus and Serena Williams had used and received waivers for banned substances including corticosteroids and narcotics.
wxlJ TIL there is a 99 year old panhandler in Bulgaria that gives all of the money he collects to local orphanages, once giving over $24,000 in a single donation.
rRAjM TIL the schizophrenia treatment drug risperidone is as low as 30 cents per month in the developing world, but in the US costs patients $100 to $200.
XEYe8 Til about the two frogs that were married as an offering to God and divorced two months after in a ritual to stop rains in Bhopal, India which were causing floods