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TIL Artist Bryan Lewis Saunders once took a different drug every day for several weeks, making a portrait of himself while under the influence of each drug.

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xV48w TIL: Nearly 250,000 Americans die every year from medical errors, making it the third leading cause of death in the country.
9YGpD TIL Play-Doh started out as a wallpaper cleaner before the head of the struggling company realized the non-toxic material made a good modelling clay for children and rebranded it.
6EevX TIL that dolphins deliberately use toxic pufferfish to get high
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LEop TIL that in 2000, a new food “invented” by Kim Jong-il called “Gogigyeopbbang” was introduced to North Koreans. It was described as “double bread with meat”, but took on the uncanny appearance of a conventional hamburger.