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TIL that canned tuna (and other fish) contains small doses of mercury (the poisonous metal found for example in old thermomethers)

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x66R5 TIL Microsoft held a mock funeral for iPhone because they thought the windows phone 7 was going to smash apple in sales
DQ9Ve TIL medical scholars diagnosed Gollum from The Lord of the Rings with multiple personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, dissociative identity disorder, and PTSD.
dZdd TIL a 16th century serial killer murdered 964 individuals. This including 6 of his newborn babies, birthed from a sex slave he held captive 7 years, before she convinced him to let her go to town where she betrayed him by dropping peas for the town’s men to follow and capture him.
VBjDG TIL Titanic survivors who said the ship split in half before sinking were not believed for 73 years, with one survivor saying people would 'argue' with her about what she really saw, until the Titanic's wreckage was found in half in 1985.
8aYdb TIL that the Beastie Boys are credited for coining the term “mullet” to describe the “business up front, party in the back” hairstyle.