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TIL Consumption of Alcohol Helps People Decontaminate themselves from Radiation.

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b6ReN TIL a British pensioner who lives in Praia da Luz, Portugal gets backlash from locals for offering tourists a Madeleine McCann sightseeing tour. Stops include the apartment where she was last seen and the tapas restaurant her parents were dining at.
rM9w TIL at a soccer match in Brazil in 2013, a referee stabbed a player to death. He was then quartered and decapitated using a sickle and his severed head was placed on a spike on the field.
e09L5 TIL that the word "Podcast" came from "iPod + Broadcast"
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