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TIL beets can turn your pee red 😅
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TIL the city of Houston, Texas has a program where they train citizens to write tickets for handicap parking violations. After taking a course in proper procedure, you are given the authority to ticket anyone you see parked in a handicap spot without a placard.
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TIL Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson, who personally intervened and stopped the My Lai massacre, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his action. However, after reading the citation, which included a fabricated account of him rescuing a young girl under heavy fire, he threw his medal away.
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TIL that a tick bite can cause a lifetime allergy to red meat. The Lone Star tick injects a type of sugar found in red meat into the blood, and causes antibodies to be made that cause an allergic reaction when the person later ingests meat with the sugar.
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TIL One of the reasons pirates and sailors wore earrings at sea was to cover funeral expenses if they died.
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TIL When someone called the black chauffeur of Alice Roosevelt (daughter of Teddy) a “black bastard”, the driver took it in stride. Roosevelt, however, leaned out the window and shouted “Shut up, you white son of a bitch.”