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TIL Our knowledge of what Potassium Cyanide tastes like comes from one man's suicide note, which he meant for doctors to read. He noted it tasted acrid and burned his tongue.

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e05jb TIL that Joseph Heller's manuscript for "Catch-22" was rejected by publishers 22 times
MepYm TIL the tsunami of Christmas 2004 created a massive cliff 750 miles long and 50 feet high.
gMP7y TIl in 2010, the city of Belleville, Illinois, banned trick-or-treating for kids over 12. Teens can face fines from $100 to $1,000 for going door-to-door.
1aynX TIL that “Full-time Etch-a-Sketch artist” is a real thing and I couldn’t be more elated! ????????
4XoXR TIL: A loaf of bread in Berlin that cost around 160 Marks at the end of 1922 cost 200,000,000,000 Marks by late 1923. By November 1923, the US dollar was worth 4,210,500,000,000 German marks