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TIL that it’s not only okay to eat kiwi skin, it’s really healthy, and can help with IBS (irritable bowel syndrome)!

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ZpPyG TIL fingerprinting for identifying criminals was invented in Argentina in 1891. It was used to solve a murder case in 1892 where a woman murdered her sons and tried to blame a neighbor.
1XRr TIL that there is a phenomenon in Venezuela called “Everlasting Storm” in which a lake hosts thousands of lightning strikes every hour 260 days per year
nWXKP TIL of Janet Chandler a 22-years-old Michigan woman who was gang raped and killed by her colleagues in Feb 1979 because they hated her promiscuity, the case remained unsolved until in 2004 when some college students made a film called "Who killed Janet Chandler?" that led to the case being solved
Ym5Z TIL the smell from cut grass comes from cis-3-hexenal which is also an insect pheromone
R5jx9 TIL that the "Killing baby Hitler" is a thought experiment in ethics and theoretical physics which poses the question of using time travel to assassinate an infant Adolf Hitler.