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TIL In early days of penicillin, it was so expensive it was extracted from patients urine and reused on other patients.

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R7En8 TIL that in 2013 the United States bombed the island of Guam with 2,000 dead mice stuffed with painkillers to kill the Brown Tree Snake which is an invasive species on the island. The snake got there by accident in the 1950s on a shipping vessel.
loglN TIL There's a chain of cafés in The Netherlands called Brownies & Downies, where you are being served by people with Down syndrome.
wMy7 TIL that American Cheese cannot be legally sold as “cheese” in the United States. It must instead be labeled as “cheese product,” “cheese food,” or “American Singles,” since its manufacturing process varies so significantly from that of other cheeses.
xV6gB TIL it is possible to coat droplets of water with silica, resulting in a dry powder known as "dry water"
DxYY TIL Macaulay Culkin was paid $100,000 for Home Alone, and $4.5m for Home Alone II