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TIL there is a bacteria that literately excretes pure gold
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TIL the Las Vegas Strip is located in Paradise
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TIL: How Many Locusts Does It Take to Start a Biblical Plague? Just three.
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TIL between the 16th and 18th centuries, the Catholic church exhumed skeletons from catacombs and decorated them with gold and precious stones to serve as relics for saints. While some of the corpses may have been early martyrs, most actually did not belong to anybody with religious significance.
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TIL the EU banned methanol in windshield washer fluid because alcoholics were drinking windshield washer fluid and dying.
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TIL about George Shima who would become the first Japanese American millionaire by growing about 85% of California's potatoes, which would earn him the nickname "The Potato King"