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TIL after hurricane Katrina, many residents had to throw out their refrigerators due to the decomposing food becoming so toxic that it melted plastic, corroded metal, and ate through the rubber door lining.

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QNanM TIL philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre heavily used amphetamines, mixed with coffee & tobacco, to boost productivity. This led to intense writing spurts (e.g., a 400-page book in a month) but severely damaged his health.
JYopB TiL there's a "Women Only" village in Kenya, Africa called Umoja Village that was created in 1990 as a safe haven for women escaping violence
mxYrx TIL that several months before Russell Crowe won the Oscar for Gladiator, the FBI warned him that the al-Qaeda were planning to kidnap him as part of a “cultural destabilization plot”. For nearly two years, the FBI guarded Crowe in public and refused to give him any details about the threat.
DN8J TIL if you yelled for 1 year, 7 months, 26 days, you would produce enough sound energy to heat a cup of coffee
b6kwp TIL Stevie Wonder's groundbreaking album Talking Book which included "Superstition" and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life", was his 15th studio album and 18th album overall, and was released when he was only 22.