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TIL that lead makes things sweet, making lead paint a much bigger problem for children.

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Nyeb TIL Antimatter, at $62.5 trillion per gram, is the most expensive substance in the world.
ANJpo TIL in 1984, Harvey Comics sued Columbia pictures due to the logo in Ghostbusters being too similar to that of Fatso from Casper the friendly Ghost. As a result of said Lawsuit, Fatso became a public domain character, and it’s likely that Casper is as well.
lb05 TIL that to avoid using the German-sounding word “hamburger” during WW2, American’s used the term “Liberty Steak”.
a8N8y TIL During World War II the Ontario government tried to rename the small town of Swastika (named in 1906) to Winston. The locals responded by taking down the Winston sign and placing a new Swastika sign which read “To hell with Hitler, we came up with our name first.”
ZpGLD TIL that Robert Englund made a cameo appearance as Freddy Krueger on the Japanese comedy show "Kato-Chan Ken-Chan Gokigen".