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TIL: Sour candy can help with panic attacks

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e09GJ TIL about the "tragic mulatto" character which existed in early American entertainment. They were portrayed as a biracial black person who was light enough to pass as white, but was not accepted by either white or black society. They were oftentimes depicted as suicidal and self-hating.
4XVnJ TIL that the "Wa" in Wario and Waluigi isn't an upturned M, it's actually a portmanteau of Mario and Luigi's name and the Japanese adjective warui which means "bad", literally translating to "bad Mario" or "bad Luigi".
x6yjB TIL that in the UK, the number of women (103,575) who applied to study law at the undergraduate level in 2022 was nearly double the number of men (51,865) who did.
x6l1w TIL cashews come from a fruit called a cashew apple, which is also edible and tastes somewhat like it's namesake
VEKQ TIL NASA has predicted a near collision course with a 300m wide meteorite they’ve named Apophis (Egyptian God of Death and Darkness) in 2036.