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TIL some weapons and chemicals forbidden by armies to use during war are actively used on civilians, including Tear Gas.

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JaBv TIL If you put a big plastic sheet or a white sheet on your grass in the garden on a nice day, leave it for a few hours and then run a magnet over it, you can often find specks just fallen down from outer space
5YeRn TIL red spider lilies are poisonous and were planted near burial sites in Japan to prevent animals from digging up corpses. As a result the flowers are now associated with death, funerals, and the afterlife.
l77jr TIL that about one in 2,000 people in the UK is a carrier of variant CJD, or "mad cow" disease, linked to eating contaminated beef. Relatively few people who catch the infectious agent develop symptoms and it's unknown if they can transmit it to others.
GRW5 TIL There are people working on a tube style transportation device, like Futurama’s. It is called the ET3 and would hopefully travel from LA to NYC in an hour
grveA TIL that the yellow or orange color of cheese is the result of dyes. The colors are not natural, anymore.