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TIL Commercial bread contains an ingredient derived from human hair: l-cysteine

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YpR9Z TIL that the Chernobyl disaster could have been 10x worse and could have affected most of Europe if three volunteer divers didn't drain a pool to prevent a second explosion.
p8o9p TIL that Geddy Lee's "Take Off" (1981) hit #16 on the Billboard Hot 100, which was five positions higher then the highest-charting vocal he had with Rush, 1982's "New World Man."
GmXG TIL at 84 years old, Harvard Professor Tom Lehrer was asked by 2 Chainz for permission to sample a song Lehrer wrote at 24. He responded: “I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?”
lOjr TIL a medication called DRACO (developed by MIT researchers) could potentially cure you from any known virus from herpes to the flu if they had the support and funding to continue it.
pElb TIL that Genghis Khan beheaded a city of over 1.75 million people because one of the citizens killed his son-in-law