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TIL Rick Bayless, Skip's brother, is a world-renowned chef and has been on many cooking shows

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P14JV TIL that the first footage of a real war was shot by Frederick Villiers during the Battle of Volos in 1897
wowr6 TIL Tetrachromats (mostly women) can distinguish upto 100 million colours since they posses a 4th type of cone cell , apart from having the regular RBG cone cells
awGWb TIL In 1966 Batgirl did a PSA about equal pay.
E1G50 TIL that 1 cup (3.5 oz / 100 grams) of raw elderberries contain 3 milligrams of Cyanide - this is 3% of the estimated fatal dose for a 130 pound (60 kg) person. Yet the raw berries are made into syrup and gummies to treat flu and cold symptoms. Theoretically - 7.3 pounds (3,3 kg) can kill you.
pOG4 TIL the inventor of the Segway isn’t dead. His name is Dean Kaman, and he has been working on a water purification machine to bring clean water to the parts of the world without it. He designed the new Coca Cola fountain dispensers in exchange for Coke’s support in distributing his machines.