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TIL More than 100 people die annually from puffer fish poisoning.

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VMDnQ TIL that the term "lobby" comes from the ability of ordinary people to meet their representatives in lobbies and hallways of the UK Parliament buildings after debates
rRQjx TIL that Luckner "Vampire" Cambronne - head of Haiti's murderous Tonton Macoutes, who killed 30000+ people, and sold corpses and (allegedly HIV-infected) blood to US institutions - emigrated to USA in 1972, and lived in Miami, comfortable and undisturbed, until 2006.
W7yaB TIL that the dress codes are symbolic indications of different social ideas. The history started from the 7th through the 9th centuries, the European royalty and nobility used a dress code to differentiate themselves from other people through ornamented garments, especially the collar.
ne5n7 TIL that in the California Condor Recovery Plan, researchers and breeders removed condor eggs and used condor puppets to raise and feed the chicks from those eggs. Parent condors would then lay more eggs to replace the taken eggs, thus increasing their reproductive rate.
a8AbA TIL Doritos were invented at Disneyland. In the 1960s, the restaurant Casa de Fritos at Disney used up their surplus tortillas by frying and coating them with a seasoning powder. The appetizer was such a big hit that Frito-Lay, an early sponsor of Disneyland, released the snack nationwide.