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TIL not only is gold edible, it's also kosher.

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yQBgw TIL A single cherry has approximately 0.17 grams of lethal cyanide per gram of seed (located inside the 'pit'). Depending on the size of the kennel, ingesting just one or two freshly crushed pits can lead to death.
byA9 TIL an 80 year old woman was killed in a Brazilian clinic when a student nurse accidentally administered coffee and milk through her IV line.
nW7AW TIL Ralph Lauren's Original name is Ralph Lifshitz
W7Jd4 TIl TIL that after the US landed the first people on the moon the Soviet Union framed Apollo 11 as “the fanatical squandering of wealth looted from the oppressed peoples of the developing world.”
4Kng TIL that men prefer women with larger bodies when they are hungry.