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TIL loneliness is as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes per day

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1aN08 TIL that pistachio nuts are very tricky to ship. They can spontaneously combust or suck all of the air out of a storage area
M1mB TIL that actors usually snort powdered lactose on set and if they’re lactose-intolerant, then vitamin B powder
oEaW TIL Audrey Hepburn was a ballet prodigy as a child, but after five years of malnutrition due to German occupation during WWII, she was permanently too weak to dance, so she turned to acting.
1anPd TIL 800 years before the Black Death, the same bacteria cause plague in the Byzantine Empire. At it's peak, the plague killed 5,000 per day in Constantinople.
6E8Zw TIL that Jimmy Carter is the longest-lived president, the longest-retired president, the first president to live forty years after their inauguration, and the first to reach the age of 95.