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TIL in China there's ink named "Burning White House." It's black with gold dust.

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Oon81 TIL Not being able to poop in public toilet is a condition called parcopresis.
nGvo TIL Tom Delonge of Blink-182 is a firm believer in extraterrestrial life and once had his phone tapped by the government for coming into possession of 36 hours of Congressional testimonial footage of NASA’s secret space program.
BrnRk TIL Isaac Asimov was not a fan of Orwell's 1984, saying about it in 1980: more people bought it and talked about it than read it, for it is a dreadfully dull book - didactic, repetitious, and all but motionless.
gr5pb TIL: The Parker space probe is the fastest man-made object ever. It reached 394,736 miles per hour (635,266 km per hour) on its mission hurtling around the Sun. That's nearly 400 times faster than a fighter jet and 500 times faster than the speed of sound!
RP87 TIL that Ozzy Osbourne’s DNA has been sequenced to see how he’s still alive after a life of hard drug use and drinking. His full genome was sequenced and analysed by American researchers, who uncovered mutations related to addiction, metabolism, and Osbourne’s Neanderthal ancestors.