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TIL the most dangerous tree is the manchineel found in Florida and the Caribbean..the sap is so poisonous and acidic that the merest contact with human skin causes a breakout of blisters, and blindness can occur if it touches a person´s eyes.

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p8WJN TIL that one can die from laughter. Chrysippus of Soli, a Greek stoic philosopher is said to have died this way at the age of 73. As he watched a donkey eat some figs he died in a fit of laughter.
vPMyD TIL the Madagascar buttonquail is a ground-dwelling species with an unusual breeding biology in which the sexual dimorphism is reversed, with female being more brightly coloured than the male and it is the male that incubates the eggs and mainly cares for the young.
64n8 TIL “Twister” (1996) was given a PG-13 rating by the MPAA Code and Ratings Board for “intense depiction of very bad weather.”
krQB TIL that in Dublin, Irish Car Bomb cocktail is known as a “Nine-Eleven” as Americans often order it without thinking of the offense it can cause.
bkj4 TIL In 1963, four Princeton students forced a local train to stop by parking a car on the tracks. With a gun loaded with blanks, they got on the train, picked four girls as their dates, and rode away with them on horseback.