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TIL that eating 1400 Slim Jims will kill a person via sodium nitrate poisoning

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4kRBR TIL until 2001 workers at Disneyland had to wear "communal underwear" while in character because normal undies would bunch up and become visible. After several outbreaks of pubic lice, the performers got the Teamsters Union involved and Disney finally agreed to employees wearing their own underpants
N7GA6 TIL the Saudi blockade of Yemen has caused 70% of Yemen's population to starve. Over 50k children died of starvation in 2017 alone.
mx0KM TIL that infants do not blink at the same rate as adults. Adults blink about 10 times per minute, but infants blink only about 1-2 times per minute. The blink rate increases throughout childhood, and usually catches up to the adult rate by adolescence.
WkEr8 TIL Hernando Colón, the son of Christopher Columbus, started a universal library in Seville, Spain. He really did try to collect everything, and catalogued books, manuscripts, pamphlets and tavern posters, from weighty tomes to throwaway ephemera.
dDXjB TIL that the star Betelgeuse gets its English name due to a 13th century translation error from the Arabic ‘Yad al-Jauzā’ (Hand of Orion) because some one mistook the Arabic letter for Y (ي) for the letter for B (ب). Written as part of a word, the only difference is an extra dot on the bottom for Y.