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TIL that beans are poisonous if not cooked properly

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NXAvb TIL North Korea was the first ever Asian country to reach the Quarterfinals of the FIFA World Cup. During the quarterfinals, they scored 3 consecutive goals leading 3-0 for 25 minutes before conceding 5 goals and losing 3-5 to Portugal
D1bRv TIL that NYC's famous Second Avenue Deli moved to Third Avenue, but kept its name. Thus the place is often not swamped by tourists
mxv6v TIL that in 1900 a young clerk at a British shipping company observed a fortune in rubber returning from the Congo while only guns and manacles were being sent in return. He correctly deduced that these resources were being extracted from the population by force and campaigned to expose the abuses.
4NvR TIL that the northernmost vineyard on Earth is a nuclear power plant in Finland. It’s made possible by using heated waste coolant water from the plant to sustain the grapes in the climate.
p8MBG TIL that there is now unrefutable evidence that confirms the validity of the previously-labeled "absurd" theory that humans existed in the Americas before the end of the last ice age, further suggesting that a cataclysmic event could have wiped out a previously unknown civilization