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TIL most receipts use toxic ink that gets absorbed through skin contact

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GYLBN TIL During WW2 British prisoners captured by the Japanese were not allowed to sing, in an effort to stop the morale of the prisoners from getting to high, so they whistled instead, an example of this can be seen in the film "Bridge over the River Kwai".
wLBO8 TIL That the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel died of Tuberculosis at the age of 26 and did most of his major work in a span of about 7 years while living in poverty. The equivalent of the Nobel prize in the field of mathematics; the Abel prize, is named after him.
mx6WM TIL Grasshoppers are older than grass, having evolved roughly 250 million years ago
PKbJ TIL during the voice recording for 1986’s “Transformers: The Movie” Orson Welles complained to his biographer that he had spent the day “playing a toy in a movie about toys who do horrible things to each other.”
6mpX TIL Eminem was interviewed on 60 Minutes and showed Anderson Cooper how to rhyme the word “orange” by making it two syllables: “I put my orange four-inch door-hinge in storage and ate porridge with George.”