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TIL no child has been poisoned by Halloween candy. Exception, one by a family member.

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9Y1jX TIL In 1739, Benjamin Franklin was pivotal in the commencement of American paper currency and anti-counterfeit measures. He even went as far as intentionally misspelling words and using leaf imprints to fool counterfeiters.
ypNV TIL Astronauts on Skylab 4 staged a mutiny after feeling that they were being worked and pushed too hard. They reportedly spent their day off relaxing and taking in the panoramic views of Earth from orbit.
pY0Qp TIL researchers have observed that every culture has a word for black and white. When a culture has a third word for a color, it is always red. If it has a fourth word, it is either yellow or green
gr7Qb TIL of the last Kaua'i 'ō'ō bird, who was recorded singing a mating call to a female that would never come. It died in 1987.
l7NX7 TIL that a "culture bound syndrome," or "folk illnes," is a set of psychiatric symptoms that only presents itself in a particular society. One such example is Amok Syndrome from Indonesia, from which we get the term "running amok"