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TIL A Mumbai thief was force-fed 48 bananas to make him excrete a stolen gold chain.

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gZk7 TIL that former NSA Intelligence Official William Binney blew the whistle on the NSA’s surveillance activities as early as 2002, and was raided by the FBI in July 2007 in suspicion of his role in a New York Times Expose on warrant-less wiretapping.
w6QM TIL you would have to smoke 680kg of marijuana in 15 minutes to die from an overdose
D8Qg TIL - Childhood lead poisoning was linked to lead-based paints in 1904. Several EU countries banned it in 1909, League of Nations banned it in 1922. The US did not start phasing it out until 1971 & houses built before 1978 may contain lead paint
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