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TIL that 20 grams of saffron is a lethal dose.

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oB6go TIL a meteor had fallen in the kingdom of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, and on it someone had written "The First Emperor will die and his land will be divided." When he heard this, he sent someone to investigate who did it, and when no one admitted, all the people living nearby the meteor were killed.
oB5eE TIL in 1987 the first episode of the British youth television show Network 7 featured a live demonstration of how to clone a credit card and showed it working.
DNPD TIL that Caffeine is a pain killer, and when used with other pain killers, such as Acetaminophen or NSAIDs, potentiates their effects significantly.
dDKOK TIL Douglas Engelbart never received any royalties for the invention of the mouse. In an interview he said "SRI (Stanford Research Institute) patented the mouse, but they had no idea of its value. Some years later it was known that they had licensed it to Apple Computer for something like $40,000."
0w58A TIL that some whale vomit is used in perfumes, Is also worth a fair bit if u happen to stumble across it on a beach walk, Reedited