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TIL that giving aspirin to someone with chicken pox can be fatal.

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XPJR TIL all knots reduce the strength of the rope in which they are tied, generally by 20% to 40% of the unknotted strength.
EvY0 TIL chimpanzees prefer cooked food over raw food and would even wait for the food to get ‘cooked’.
QNk8a TIL a lot of ancient Roman furniture we know about was preserved in cities buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. High temperatures carbonized the furniture rather than burning it, which left well preserved wooden objects
0wlgp TIL TGI Fridays exists because the founder was single and wanted to create a place to meet women
J5rj TIL a man was arrested in Ireland after punching a hole into a $10m Monet painting. His justification: he wanted to ‘get back at the state’