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TIL one can apparently buy gold pills that will turn your poop gold

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kJ8Kd TIL that Turkey has one of world’s most through national building codes against earthquakes. But they just did not enforce them.
mAXM TIL Coffee was discovered in Ethiopia, when the goat herder Kaldi noticed his goats dancing after eating the beans.
8aQla TIL Used Crayola crayons that are too small to grasp or too flat to draw with are named “Leftolas”. In 2003, the company asked kids around the country to send in blue “Leftolas”. Crayola received the equivalent of 123,000 crayons. They used it to create Big Blue, a 1,500lb crayon that’s 15ft long.
vPEkK TIL: Man goes to BBC for job interview, ends up being mistakenly presented as 'tech expert' on live TV
ep6L5 TIL the Russian listening device planted in the US Embassy, "The Thing" was designed by Leon Theremin, inventor of the theremin musical instrument.. and the technology in "The Thing" was a precursor to RFID tags.