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TIL that 20 grams of saffron is a lethal dose.

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Vjvp TIL that ZZ Top guitarists Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill, were once offered $1 million by Gillette to cut off their facial hair. They said “The prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film…a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.”
9wy6B TIL it’s cummerbund and not cumberbund
N798P TIL of Clement Vallandigham, the congressman who accidentally shot himself in court while trying to demonstrate that the death of a man was accidental suicide, rather than murder. (He won the case, but also died.)
x6L70 TIL about "laptop thigh."
mxXxv TIL that having clear urine is actually bad for you (you've drunk too much water) while having slightly tinted yellow urine is the ideal color.