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TIL Yiddish contains 251 words for the terms buy and sell

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MeEjK TIL Tupac Shakur made his movie debut in 1991’s “Nothing But Trouble” with Digital Underground, singing his original tune, “Same Song.”
gM6vL TIL some people feel dizzy, lightheaded and even high after eating spicy food. The reason is because capsaicin, the compound that makes hot peppers hot, causes your brain to release chemicals that make some people feel buzzed or high.
LnMP TIL that WD-40 has never been patented as patenting would force them to disclose their recipe.
vPQ68 TIL that the insurance company Lloyd's of London originally started out as a coffeehouse
LDaV TIL that in 1962 scientists injected an elephant with a dose of LSD that was 3000 times a typical human dose. Five minutes later the elephant trumpeted, fell down, shit itself, went into a perpetual brain seizure, and then died an hour and forty minutes later.