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TIL: Apple Watch sales in 2020 amounted to ~$30.6bn compared to the whole Swiss watch market exports of ~$16bn.

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OG9Pe TIL humans are the "most sensitive" to the castor oil seeds: it takes 1 to kill a full grown human, 11 to kill a dog, and a massive dose of 80 to kill a duck. The seeds contain ricin which is roughly 6000 times more poisonous than cyanide.
e01M5 TIL the effect that grapefruit juice has on the absorption of many pharmaceutical drugs was discovered accidentally, when studying the effect of alcohol on drug absorption. The study used grapefruit juice to mask the taste of alcohol for a blind test.
rVYx TIL if two identical twins have children with another pair of identical twins, then their children are genetically not half-siblings, but full siblings.
o9KY TIL the final battle of the American Revolutionary War took place in The Bay of Bengal, India
0wdQj TIL that the U.S. allows foods and ingredients that are banned in other countries such as: synthetic growth hormones, arsenic, food dye, and Olestra