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TIL that Limestone powder is poisonous.

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KOWLJ TIL there was a train service between India and Sri Lanka, wherein passengers can purchase one single ticket to travel from Madras (now Chennai) to Colombo. They would have had to shift to a ferry for a quick hop across the 35 KM of Palk Strait.
wR57 TIL of the Fremdschämen, the German word for the horror you feel when noticing someone is oblivious to how embarrassing they are.
4kvXX TIL that some birds, particularly penguins, possess a supraorbital gland around their eye sockets that removes salt from their bloodstream, enabling them to safely drink seawater.
kOQbB TIL that when movies want an alien planet they shoot here.
mW8E TIL Barkhad Abdi had never acted before “Captain Phillips”, was actually born in Somalia, improvised the line “look at me, I am the captain now”, and only made $65k for his Oscar nominated performance.