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TIL children have been sent to the emergency room after eating too many Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and appearing to have bloody poops. It was just the chemicals turning it red.

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ADOp4 TIL that the night before the Miracle on Ice, American goalie Jim Craig and Soviet star forward Sergei Markov played the arcade game "Centipede" at the Olympic Village. The two could barely speak in each other's language, so they communicated with nods and laughs.
m1XyP TIL about Darius McCollum, a man who was arrested 32 times for impersonating a transit worker. He commandeered hundreds of buses and subway trains over the course of 30 years, staying on route and schedule without being paid. He attended Union meetings, even though he wasn’t a member.
1YnV TIL the bad grammar and spelling errors found in scam emails & phishing attempts from Nigerian princes (etc) is done on purpose; spell checkers are intentionally not used: Research from Microsoft suggests that email scammers maximise profits by entrapping only the most gullible who overlook spelling
16nvP TIL the colourful arrowed sash (ceinture fléchée), a traditional piece of Québecois and Métis clothing, emerged from a boycott of British button-up coats: Québecois rebels used these sashes instead of British-produced buttons to hold their coats closed.
OwQg TIL more than 130 years after Darwin suggested that a large moth pollinated an African orchid, his 1862 hypothesis was confirmed. Darwin had postulated the existence of an otherwise unknown species of insect based purely on the size of the flower and his understanding of evolution and ecology.