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TIL There is an Oregon man who literally turned blue from drinking 10 oz of silver every day.

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JmZj TIL Garry Kasparov played versus the world at a game of chess online, where over 50,000 different people from more than 75 countries voted on the best move. Kasparov won when 51% of his enemies surrendered.
D1rlD TIL :Police in West Midlands, U.K. have hung posters with photographs of staring eyes exploiting a phenomenon called “gaze detection". While humans evolved it to avoid being eaten by predators, some law enforcement agencies believe that it might actually help to deter some crimes.
7rRvL Today I learned the Canadian Mint made five 220lb pure gold "1 million dollar coins", one of which was recently stolen.
nayo TIL the Nazis tried to cure homosexuality by forcing homosexual inmates to have sex with female sex slaves.
RBA6 TIL that “bride burning” accounts for one death per hour of Indian women, and is considered as rampant as it was 2500 years ago.