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TIL: Polonium is so deadly, it would only take 1/1,000,000'th (one millionth) of a gram to kill an average person.

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1pd8 TIL because of the “Harlem Shake” hundreds of students have been disciplined, fifteen Aussie miners fired, and there is even an FAA investigation.
v0jr TIL the development of the golf tee was the last major change to the rules of golf. Before this, golf balls were teed up on tiny heaps of sand provided in boxes.
LQoEQ TIL that in the year 2000, Norm MacDonald nearly won a million dollars for Paul Newman’s charity for children, but host Regis Philbin talked him out of answering the question so he only won $500,000
Ry91 TIL of illegal “Gutter Oil” in China, where raw sewage and other waste is boiled down to make cooking oil, which is then used by street vendors and restaurants to cook with.
Dadj TIL James J. Hill, Canadian-American railroad executive, also known as “The Empire Builder”, was quoted: “Give me snuff, whiskey and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.”