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TIL all Olympic curling stones are made of a rare type of granite that is only found on a tiny island in Scotland.

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8e00P TIL in 2006, Scott Stapp of Creed filed a lawsuit to block the release of a sex video involving himself, Kid Rock, and four women. The suit was settled with the defendant agreeing to pay Stapp an undisclosed sum and to refrain from distributing the video.
Z8GmB TIL that with 168,151 people per square km, the Lalbagh Thana neighborhood of Dhaka, Bangladesh, is most densely populated administrative subdivision in the world (~6.2x denser than Manhattan!)
OoYmR TIL that the moon's gravity affects the LHC's proton beam so much that it has to be compensated for during operation
WRpL TIL the pressurization of an airplane cabin alters the function of taste buds, causing a decrease of up to 30% in the ability to taste saltiness or sweetness. This is one of the reasons so many people dislike airline food.
XEOGk TIL that there's a sea slug that can photosynthesize, called Elysia chlorotica. It gets its chloroplasts from eating algae.