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TIL that popular holiday plants poinsettias, mistletoe, and holly can cause health issues for cats if ingested.

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6mRW TIL that in the early 1980s to prove his hypothesis that the bacterium H.pylori causes ulcer in the stomach, researcher Barry Marshall drank a petri dish containing cultured H.pylori. He received the 2005 Nobel Prize for this work.
xPg5 TIL that in 2009, a man was sentenced to 18 years in prison for felony assault after pointing his gun at officers raiding his home in a no-knock raid. He was shot five times and police didn’t find the drugs they were looking for.
699w7 TIL - The antibiotic "Bacitracin" was named after the Bacillus bacterium species that produced it, combined with the wound it was found growing on from a patient named Margaret Treacy (using the more common spelling of Tracy)
W5d9 TIL A Pythagorean cup is a practical joke device in a form of a drinking cup, credited to Pythagoras of Samos.
KoBE TIL that black beans are a complete source of protein and contain all essential amino acids in the necessary ratios.