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TIL Lima Beans are naturally toxic, have traces of cyanide, and must be fully cooked to illuminate it prior to eating

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99xm TIL the creator of Pimp My Ride was convicted of murdering his wife.
aw6Do TIL in four boroughs of New York City, excluding Staten Island, there has been a 25 to 35 percent reduction in alcohol-related car accidents since Uber came to town in 2011.
QNbx6 TIL that the world's oldest known work of art, created approximately 44,000 years ago, was discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi in 2019. ​
w1Ao TIL the official size of the home plate in baseball is mathematically impossible to create in reality because it requires a right triangle of a size that does not exist.
l79G5 TIL that in the 1760s, an imposter named Šćepan arrived in Montenegro claiming to be the deceased Russian tsar Peter III. Convincing the local people, Šćepan was shortly after proclaimed as the country's ruler, becoming the first and only "tsar" of Montenegro.