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TIL pencils have never had lead in them. Ever. It's always been graphite.

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e0Rob TIL in 1848 entrepreneur James Lick arrived in San Francisco with 600 lbs of chocolate to sell. When all of his chocolate sold quickly, he urged his confectioner friend in Peru to come to San Francisco and start his own Chocolate company. That confectioner's name is Domingo Ghirardelli.
xVZe0 TIL that Russian porn star Lola Taylor has offered to have sex with the scientist who finds a cure for the current virus
OoK1R TIL that Jean-Marc Bosman, whose football transfer led to a ruling that completely changed European football (allowing players to freely move after their contracts end, and making foreign player quotas illegal), ended up bankrupt, his marriage ruined, depressed, alcoholic, and now relies on handouts
nlrb TIL: A 2700 year old bag of weed was found in a grave.
X1dR TIL: Kinder Suprise carries $2500 posession fine per egg in US: Hotdogs are more dangerous…