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TIL: pumpernickel bread is derived from the Baviarian word "pumpern" (flatulence) and "nickel" (goblin or devil), so it is "devil's fart" bread

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OG9Pe TIL humans are the "most sensitive" to the castor oil seeds: it takes 1 to kill a full grown human, 11 to kill a dog, and a massive dose of 80 to kill a duck. The seeds contain ricin which is roughly 6000 times more poisonous than cyanide.
N7EJM Across the atmosphere of Earth, lightning flashes about 50 times per second. That’s 4.3 million times a day and roughly 1.5 billion times a year.
Mmg8 TIL in 2003, archaeologists found 20,000 year old human footprints in the Australian Outback of a male they called T8. Scientists determined he was running 23 mph in mud, barefoot, and was even accelerating before the tracks stopped. Usain Bolt’s record for running speed is 27.44 mph.
W0oA TIL That there’s a whole demographic of “Homeless” Japanese youth who live and sleep solely in Internet Cafés.
5NND TIL A Nova Scotia man broke into a ranch home, then fed the cats, did laundry, put out hay for the horses, took a shower, used the residents’ toothbrush and shaver, and wrote in their diary.