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TIL of the Mid Night Club who would race on Tokyo's highways in excess of 200 mph in highly modified street cars.

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b9BnZ TIL in England in 1858, a confectioner making peppermint lozenges tried to purchase harmless powdered gypsum from a local pharmacist but was accidentally sold 12 pounds of arsenic trioxide. 21 people died and more than 200 others became ill when the poisoned candy was unwittingly sold to the public.
Wk189 TIL 25 years after its release, Mariah Carey still earns around $3,300,000 a year in royalties alone for her song "All I Want for Christmas Is You"
n8do TIL an Australian man committed suicide by shooting himself in chest with a shotgun, then in the head with a pistol, then in the throat with a shotgun, then in the chest again with a shotgun.
7rdgP TIL the architects of the 2005 de Young museum in San Francisco hoped the building’s copper facade would have turned green by now, like the Statue of Liberty, but new estimates give it 50 years.
oBOM8 TIL since an Ottoman sultan was killed in Kosovo in 1389, the same few Turkish families have maintained the battlefield tomb of his internal organs. Every generation in the current line - last name "Türbedar" (tomb caretaker) - has lived there since 1854, but it will soon end with a Bosnian widow