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TIL that in 1994 a Texas A&M professor demonstrated that strawberry Pop-Tarts could produce a flame over a foot high when overheated in a toaster. A wave of lawsuits followed.

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GANAj TIL Pat Morita (Mr. Miyagi) as a child was diagnosed with spinal TB. He was wrapped in a full body cast, told he would never walk, and spent most of the first 9 years of his life in hospitals being treated. When he was finally released his family was interned in a camp for the duration of WWII.
WX78 TIL NASA use’s the film Armageddon as training. New recruits have to find as many inaccuracies as possible. There are 168, more than 1 per minute.
kJJNB TIL Texas no loner accepts last meal requests for death row inmates, after a murderer ordered a feast and refused to eat it in 2011.
695vW TIL that poisonous birds exist. They contain toxins in their skin which are dangerous to touch or eat.
xE4k TIL that the guy who discovered the link between handwashing and germs, was criticised to the point that it destroyed his health, and later, him