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TIL Continuous ingestion of Colloidal Silver [an alternative medicine] can cause skin to turn an irreversible blue/grey color - a condition called Argyria

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v1pjK TIL The WWII German submarine U-69's official crest contained the phrase (in German) Tally ho! with signal flags for the letters L M A...which stand for exactly what you think it stands for. Nice.
OoxlL TIL General Motors Hired Prostitutes To Seduce Ralph Nader In An Attempt To Discredit Him Due To A Book He Wrote Called “Unsafe At Any Speed” Exposing The Unsafe Practices Of Car Companies
d0J8 TIL that golfers in Japan purchase insurance at $65/year for coverage of up to $3,000 in the event that they sink a hole-in-one, in which case tradition dictates that they must buy gifts and drinks for all their friends.
7r9eM TIL that there is 1400 tons of unexploded (and rapidly degrading) munitions 1.5 miles off the coast of Kent (UK). If it explodes, it would likely cause a bigger explosion than the one in Beirut.
E1pZX TIL when Pope John Paul II delivered a speech to the European Parliament, Ian Paisley shouted "I denounce you as the antichrist!" The former crown prince of Austria-Hungary, 77-year-old Otto von Habsburg, punched him in the face and pushed him out of the chamber.