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TIL in China there's a public health issue regarding an illegal practice called "Gutter Oil" as up to 10% of the restaurants use cooking oil manually refined from the sewage waste.

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rR0ax TIL That 'flint' lighters produce toxic 'flint' dust. This toxic dust is visible and appears as smoke when a flint lighter is ignited. Flint dust contains rare earth metals, especially bad when inhaled. Any smoker concerned about their health should use an electronic ignition lighter.
nEX9 TIL Samuel L. Jackson overcame a stuttering problem as a child by developing an affinity for using the word “motherfucker” in his vocabulary
6RgJ TIL After winning a romp with two hookers in the “Get Your Grandpa Laid” contest on the Howard Stern show, winner Johnny Oris died choking on a steak as he hurried his dinner on his way to have threesome
epDkJ TIL that Hermione was based on J.K. Rowling: the author loosely based the character on herself when she was 11 years old, and chose an otter as Hermione's patronus as it's her favourite animal. She also took the name from Shakespeare's The Winter’s Tale and didn't want a popular name
ANG1n TIL Eric Carmen's (to me, Celine Dion's) "All by Myself" snagged its melody from Rachmaninoff's 'Adagio sostenuto', the second movement of his 'Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18'.