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TIL that Haribo Sugarless Gummy Bears contain a chemical, Lycasin, that causes people consuming them to have “gastric symptoms” (i.e., you shit your brains out after eating them)

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8yyX TIL Shakira has been making music for more than 23 years and can play the guitar, drums, percussion and harmonica. She also speaks 7 different languages, is the founder of a charity called Pies Descalzos and is a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF.
pY9ge TIL that Daniel ‘Rudy’ Ruettiger, the football player who is the basis of the classic sports film “Rudy”, ran a pump and dump scheme and was charged with stock fraud charges and settled for $4.5M.
0AnM TIL that theoretically if astronauts traveled in a spaceship at a constant 1g of acceleration they could travel the entire universe in their own lifetime, while billions of years would pass by on earth.
b91dQ TIL of the Nazino affair - the mass deportation of 6,000 "socially harmful" people to Nazino Island in the Soviet Union in May 1933. They were abandoned with only flour for food, and little in the way of tools, clothing, or shelter, and those who attempted to leave were killed by armed guards.
PYa1V TIL that during World War II, Lockheed employed the skills of Disney, Paramount, and 20th Century Fox Studios to disguise one of their production plants to look like an ordinary California suburb from the air.