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d8yJr TIL Due to their size, the Nintendo Switch Game Cards are coated with denatonium benzoate, a non-toxic, bitter-tasting agent, as a safety precaution against accidental consumption by young children.
M7kQK TIL virtually all the major obstacles on K2's standard route had been overcome as early as 1939, and it might have been climbed then had storms and miscommunication not caused disaster instead.
VBpxZ TIL that Mike Oldfield had so much trouble garnering label interest in his composition "Tubular Bells", that at one point he even considered asking the Sovie Union to pay him to give public performances
E10A7 TIL the cause of death of the individuals who jumped out of the WTC on 9/11 are ruled as homicides due to blunt trauma (as opposed to suicides)
epPML TIL that on March 2008, a group of emo teens battled a group of punk teens in Mexico City until the Hare Krishna intervened an calmed everyone down