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TIL: the capital of Rwanda has a monthly car-free day
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TIL: In 2011, a man’s death was officially listed as “starvation” from a celery only diet.
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TIL Pablo Escobar offered to pay off Columbia’s $10 billion foreign debt in order to avoid prosecution
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TIL Alexander Fleming's mold that produced the first antibiotic, penicillin, was kept frozen since 1945 and its genomes are used for regrowing nowadays
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TIL that while dining out at Lord Harcourt's residence at Nuneham in 1848 William Buckland was shown a silver locket containing an object resembling pumice stone. He popped the object in his mouth, and swallowed it. It was in fact part of the mummified heart of Louis XIV of France.
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TIL that the singular form of confetti is “confetto”.