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TIL that if you leave lime juice on your hands on a sunny day, your skin can get second degree burns and be discolored for YEARS… It’s called “margarita dermatitis” because people often get it while making margaritas outside!

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x6AQB TIL The oldest flamingo lived to be 83. It arrived at Adelaide Zoo in Australia in 1933 and died in 2014.
6YoZ TIL that China cannot recall the loans it has made to the U.S. as the resulting collapse of the U.S. dollar would tank the Chinese economy along with the rest of the world.
78adZ TIL about Oliver Pollock, the man who created the US dollar sign (and went broke funding a war)
9wKVr TIL that although boxer Joe Louis earned $4.6million dollars in his career, he received only $800,000 of that himself.
pWRG TIL that compared with the 1960s, U.S. women have in 2000s spent two to three hours longer in labor, according to researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, who said the findings suggest doctors may need to rethink the definition of “normal” labor