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TIL that beans are poisonous if not cooked properly

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5Yjmr TIL about "three-quarter siblings": siblings who are genetically half way between full siblings and half siblings. This happens if they share the same father but different mothers who are sisters, or the same mother but different fathers who are brothers.
Dree TIL that before The Ring (2002)’s release, the tape from the movie was showed during late night programming, with no reference to the movie. People watching TV late at night might’ve stumbled across the video, with no idea what it was.
p8ALO TIL: The International Space Station orbits about 220 miles above Earth. To put that in perspective, if Earth were the size of a basketball, the space station would be about 1/4 of an inch (<7mm) off the surface.
j6dWp TIL There was no hot water supply on board Apollo Lunar module or Command module so all meals were served cold. Astronauts Scott and Irwin all asked for more food to be brought as walking on the Moon required huge reserves of energy and stamina
5YxwQ TIL that the Salem Witch Trials could have been just a really bad LSD trip as the rye bread they were eating was contaminated by a fungus called ergot which caused the consumer to spasm or hallucinate, leading people to blame witchcraft.