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TIL between 1985 and 1992, a Los Angeles hospital recorded 38 deaths and 80 injuries due to rounds falling out of the sky from celebratory gunfire.

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mPky TIL of an experiment where monkeys were introduced to the concept of money. Soon after some of them turned into thieves, prostitutes and even a “bank robber”.
Ga9g TIL “beehive fences” (spaced along the edge of their property) in Africa help farmers ward off elephants without harming them, while also producing honey that they can sell in addition to other crops.
GAV87 TIL: Arsenic was sold as a beauty product in the late 1800s, women would nibble on wafers or even wash with the poison, hoping to achieve an ideal complexion that was free of “freckles, black-heads, and pimples."
MZla TIL that the record for a ‘polyglot’ (person fluent in multiple languages), is held by a 19th century British Governor to Hong Kong - who could fluently speak 100 languages and was familiar with approximately 200. The greatest living multi-linguist speaks 39.
p8Xj8 TIL about the manzanilla de la muerte or "little apple of death", one of the most toxic trees in the world. The milky white sap present in every part of the tree is so toxic that standing beneath the tree during rain is enough to cause one's skin to blister.