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TIL Cyanide comes from bamboo

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pYGp TIL that in Denmark, there is an old law which has never been revoked stating: “If the sea between Denmark and Sweeden freezes, you are allowed to hit the Swedes with a stick”
epepL TIL that the Sun is 99.86% of all mass in our solar system. Every other planet, asteroid, and comet only adds up to 7/50th of a single percent.
x6Xxw TIL that IMDb, the Internet Movie Database, was purchased by Amazon in 1998 and has been owned by them since then
69A7w TIL There were Allied POWs in Nagasaki & Hiroshima during the bombings
xVkmk TIL the story of FedEx's founder, Frederick Smith, submitting his business plan as a term paper and receiving a failing grade with an admonition that it would never work, is a myth. He dimly remembers he got about a C, mostly because "it wasn't a well-thought-out paper."