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TIL that in Peru in 2007, a meteorite impact caused a "mystery illness" that turned out to be widespread arsenic poisoning from the meteorite evaporating contaminated groundwater

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VBXaQ TIL Two of the Jackson 5 brothers fathered children with the same woman, making the children both cousins and siblings.
N7YXM TIL Advil has a candy coating
nexvB TIL the Kit Kat chocolate bar can trace its origins to a worker at the chocolate bar factory who put a note in the suggestion box saying the company should invent a chocolate bar that “a man could take to work in his pack up”.
BrWJx Til that on a hill overlooking the ocean in Otsuchi Town in northeastern Japan is a phone booth known as the "Telephone of the Wind". It is connected to nowhere, but people come to "call" family members lost during the tsunami of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
jbrv TIL that for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, director Alfonso Cuarón had Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson write autobiographical essays about their characters. Grint didn’t write one, as “I’m Ron; Ron wouldn’t do it.”