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TIL the Goiania Incident was a mass radiation exposued caused when some poor people found a radioactive device in an abandoned hospital and passed it around, calling it "magical dust"

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oRVVW TIL that no football club won the French League during the 1992/93 season. After 1st place Marseille lost its title due to a bribery scandal, it was allotted to 2nd place PSG, but the owners of the club, TV chain Canal+, feared the reactions of their subscribers in Marseille and refused it
VM0bp TIL that museum conservators do not wear white gloves when handling rare books or artwork. The only reason you see it on TV is because they get sick of people complaining that they aren't wearing gloves.
6Pdl TIL that when asked what it was like working with Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis, comedian Doug Stanhope (who hosted GGW) responded “He’s pure, unadulterated evil” and “The most awful human being I’ve ever met in all of my time in the entertainment business.”
eppl4 TIL Ttongsul is a traditional medicinal wine with 9% alcohol content. It is made with 70% boiled non-glutinous rice, 30% glutinous rice and yeast, blended with the previously fermented poop of a 4-7 year old child. The smell and visual appearance of this drink are worse than its actual taste
R7awa TIL for almost 20 years an organization called the Blind Babies Foundation has supported a Beeper Egg Hunt for Blind Children to participate