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TIL a telltale sign of cyanide poisoning is fingernails turned black

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JY05Q TIL Thailand operates the world's smallest aircraft carrier. It has no jets since 2006, only sails for training one day a month and when at port it's open as a tourist attraction.
KYZE6 TIL The gaming industry is bigger than both movies and music combined
781BL TIL trepanation involved drilling holes into the skull. Contrary to popular belief, not all patients subjected to it died. Archaeologists have found many skulls with partially healed openings, suggesting that some survived the procedure.
DkaY TIL the White House’s Press Briefing Room was originally a swimming pool.
e0G1J TIL that a couple days before the deadly eruption of Mt. Pelee in 1902, the town of St. Pierre was plagued by in invasion of giant centipedes and pit vipers, claiming the lives of 50 people.