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TIL 97% of all cashew nuts sold are produced unethically due to their naturally toxic fruit

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oX8A TIL that Cheryl Gates McFadden goes by Gates McFadden for her acting (e.g. Star Trek), and Cheryl McFadden for her choreography.
aw7MN TIL at Norway's maximum-security Halden Prison, prisoners are paid 53 kroner ($9) per day to leave their cells, which are equipped with a video game console, mini-fridge, and a window with no bars. Guard stations are tiny and cramped to encourage them to interact with the prisoners.
kJByd TIL the Mediterranean Sea went into a cycle of partial or near complete drying-up from 5.96 to 5.33 million years ago, when the precursor of the Strait of Gibraltar closed off sealing the Sea off from the Atlantic Ocean. The period ended with a flood when the Atlantic reclaimed the basin.
YmXP TIL Thomas Edison designed and built a helicopter powered by gun powder. It blew up, and took the factory with it.
XVj TIL when Einstein died, his brain was taken out of him by a doctor who later disappeared with it. 23 years later, a reporter tracks the brain down to find the brain in hundreds of pieces.