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TIL eating grapefruits can heavily interact with medication and everybody should know

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4wQ5 TIL that Guinness World Records had to drop records for consuming liquor, beer, wine as well as “other unusual records for consuming such unlikely things as bicycles and trees”.
aw70L TIL Dylan McDermott was 5 years old when his mom died of a gunshot in 1967. Her death was ruled an accident at the time but Dylan was able to get the cold case reopened 40 years later. Through the new investigation they discovered a coverup and that her boyfriend (a known gangster) had murdered her.
e0d1n TIL in 1744, two Scottish Presbyterian ministers made a plan to have fellow ministers pay a small amount a year into a fund, which would be used to take care of their widows if ministers died. It became the blueprint for modern insurance, and their fund, Scottish Widows, is now worth billions.
GOnE TIL Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class
jNnjE TIL that MLK thought that the white moderate was the greatest stumbling block in the stride towards freedom