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TIL pistacios stored in bulk can spontaneously combust and behave like pyrophoric and self-heating substances (Class 4.2 of the IMDG Code)

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OG841 TIL Fanny Hill published in 1748 is considered is a pornographic book and one of the first porn novels ever written and is one of the most banned books in history. It has no explicit references to body parts but uses euphemisms instead e.g. nethermouth rather than vagina.
gVg4 TIL in 1971, Saddam Hussein imported 95,000 tons of grain treated with fungicidal mercury. The grain was intended for planting, but the Iraqis, unable to understand the English and Spanish warnings or the “skull and crossbones” image, baked it into bread. Hundreds died.
v1on4 TIL the reason Fear Factor was cancelled was because they had a challenge where the contestants drank donkey semen. It wasn’t even the final test to win the grand prize.
xVVXD TIL despite repeated warnings by safety inspectors to install smoke alarms and sprinklers, the Haunted Castle at Six Flags Great Adventure had burned down in 1984 killing 8 teenagers.
loykB TIL that a fully underground elementary school with a dual purpose as a fallout shelter was built in New Mexico in 1962 and operated until 1995.