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TIL head lice and humans might have shared a mutualistic relationship together

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7rm9O TIL I suffer with Laryngospasm. During the night I wake up choking on my own stomach acid.
P17Z TIL if too many pistachios are shipped in a single container, they will self-heat and experience spontaneous combustion.
oB6kR TIL according to color theory, a tint is a color mixed with white, while a shade is a color mixed with black.
M7850 TIL Whitney Houston & Vanessa Williams were the frontrunners for Denise & Sondra Huxtable on The Cosby Show. Houston turned down the role after deciding to become a singer. Williams was required to turn down the role after winning Miss America. The parts went to Lisa Bonet & Sabrina Le Beauf.
VBwvD TIL about Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) who not only popularised the use of lower case Pi to denote the ratio of a circle's circumference to it's diameter, but was also the first to use "i" to denote the square root of -1. The constant "e", the base number in a natural logarithm is the Euler Number