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TIL: “Flamin’ Hot Cheetos” sent multiple kids to the ER worried about blood in their stool, but actually it was just the red food dye changing the color because of the amount they ate.

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WkVPA TIL that in the Mexican state of Chiapas, Coca-Cola can be easier to find than bottled water and has led to a diabetes epidemic which has increased 30 percent between 2013 and 2016 and is now the second-leading cause of death after heart disease
N7XxE TIL that in 1518 a group of people actually danced until they died. One of the only known cases of "dancing mania"
waP8 TIL that there is a plant called Acacia phlebophylla which only grows in one place in the world, Mount Buffalo in Australia. It also happens to be one of the purest natural sources of the psychadelic drug DMT.
womX8 TIL that the claim Shakespeare invented 1,700 words is bogus, and that scholars now know he was using terms already in use. Early citations had limited source material, so their overreliance on Shakespeare led to the myth.
nE6P TIL that global production of vanilla wasn’t possible before a 12 year old slave named Edmund Albius discovered a method of artificial pollination in 1841.