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TIL that cyanide is present in almonds, apricots, apples, oranges, flaxseed, bamboo shoots, and foods containing cassava

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5VM09 TIL that Isadore Stessel was the only US Navy Airship casualty of WWII. Stessel was part of the crew on K-74 when it attacked and rendered the U-134 unable to submerge. Stessel was then killed by a shark moments before rescue the following day.
4YkN TIL that Bank of America mistakenly foreclosed a couple (Warren and Maureen Nyerges), who sued and won a judgment for $2500 in Legal expenses. While bank didn’t pay the couple showed up at the bank with a moving company, a deputy, and a writ allowing them to start seizing furniture and cash
6EEKw Scientists haven't quite landed on an answer
L4R9 TIL the guy who didn’t invent e-mail sues everyone that points out he didn’t invent e-mail.
XgRD TIL that 23 year old, Joe Arridy, a intellectually disabled man with an IQ of 46, was wrongfully executed in 1939. He was known for playing with his toy train that the prison warden gave him as a present while on death row. Guards and Inmates described him as “the happiest prisoner on death row”