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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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NXdMN TIL That Former Senator Strom Thurmond Spoke For 1 WHOLE DAY STRAIGHT Just Because He Want To Filibuster 1 BILL
9YAaD TIL about Ewa Wiśnierska, a german paraglider that got surprised by a thunderstorm and got sucked up by a cumulonimbus cloud to an altitude of 10.000m (33.000ft). She survived temperatures of -50*C and extreme oxygen deprivation at a height higher than the Mt. Everest.
nWvxW TIL that Mineral Weathering (the breakdown of natural Basalt rock) can capture/remove CO2 from the atmosphere for thousands of years.
mxOgE TIL cocktails became popular during Prohibition as juices were added to bootleg liquor to disguise the taste of ingredients like dead rat and wood tar
8Pw8 TIL “PNG” is pronounced “ping”