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TIL: Shaq earned a doctorate in Education

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bME TIL That Mountain Dew Baja Blast is chemically formulated to taste good with Taco Bell food
awPK9 TIL: There is a species of moth called the Bagworm moth. They build a cocoons out of sticks and small twigs. These cocoons can sometimes look like small log cabins. After metamorphosis the female of the species spend their whole lives, of a few weeks, in the little home they made.
E1RQ0 TIL the word Kamikaze means divine wind, a term that was coined for a typhoon that sunk a mongol fleet trying to invade Japan in 1281.
W7Noo TIL As a more humane form of execution Nevada tried to pump cyanide gas into Jon Gee's cell while he slept. The gas leaked out so in 1924 they built and used on him, the first gas chamber in the USA.
698Yl TIL a young woman's head swelled from her usual measurement of 22 inches to 24.8 inches (and the shape of her face changed) after she used hair dye. This was because the hair dye had a chemical in it called PPD (paraphenylenediamine), which can cause serious allergic reactions in certain people.