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TIL Venezuela owes foreign airlines over 4 billion dollars, leading many airlines to sharply reduce or stop service in the country

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1mZX TIL that eating lychees, especially unripe, can trigger a fatal brain swelling (encephalopathy) in malnourished children.
neG8W TIL rapper Ice Cube converted to Islam in the mid-1990s. This is why, in his song "It Was A Good Day", his momma cooked the breakfast with no hog - because Muslims don't eat pork.
Oojy4 TIL that Compassion Fatigue is similar to PTSD, & Secondary Traumatic Stress
LkGBr TIL That the leading theory behind disappearance of the Malaysian airlines flight MH370 was that it was a murder suicide orchestrated by the pilot who was suffering from a bout of depression.
yQPop TIL that the jeweled cockroach wasp injects a venom into a cockroache’s brain to make it lose its escape reflex, the roach then willingly follows the wasp to its nest, where the wasp lays an egg onto the roaches chest that will subsequently eat the weak-willed roach alive until a new wasp hatches.