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TIL that when you eat a pineapple, it eats you back. Pineapples are the only known carriers of Bromelain, an enzyme that breaks down protein. Since your body is made up of proteins, the pineapples you is trying to digest you. That’s why your tongue gets so sore from eating too much of it.

E1Lpx TIL that the city of Baltimore used flogging as a punishment till 1938. People were sent to the whipping post for one crime only; wife beating. This punishment was used because wife beaters often escaped conviction, as their wives simply couldn't afford to send the husband/breadwinner to jail.
E1LW7 TIL the Chechen Wars of the 1990's had such a devastating economic effect on Chechnya that kidnapping became the main source of income countrywide, procuring over $200 million USD during a three-year period during the wars.
VBXXB TIL of LaVere Redfield, an American multimillionaire who was discovered to be hoarding a massive collection of around 270k silver Morgan dollars and postage stamps in his basement during a robbery in 1952. Following his death in 1974, his heirs uncovered even more coins hidden, around 7.3 million.
kOxBE TIL that you have drastically less time to escape a fire in a newer house than an older house (due to newer furniture and structures burning faster).
45Bo TIL that President Lincoln essentially bribed Congress to outlaw slavery by offering lame-duck congressmen cushy government jobs in a then-legal form of corruption known as the patronage system