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TIL that mango plants are pretty much poison ivy with bits of deliciousness attached.

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nW4Do TIL about “compersion”, which is the emotion associated with seeing your romantic partner have sexual relation with another, and is practically the opposite of jealousy.
XEQx8 TIL about the massive 123 ft tall Murdeshwar Shiva statue in Karnataka, India which sits on the Arabian Sea
kpKE TIL that fluoroantimonic acid, one of the strongest known acids, is about 1 quintillion times stronger than sulfuric acid
1aMvO TIL Sega sold their own line of rear-projection TV’s in the 70’s. It was called the SEGA Vision and came in 3 different models with two size choices, 44 and 50 inch. While it never reached commercial success it did end up as a prize on an episode of The Price Is Right
8eayK TIL the Vatican does not oppose the theory of Big Bang and even have their own Observatory in Tucson and their own priest-scientist that seriously try to improve the knowledge on Astronomy with no interference from the Bible