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TIL that thanks to the efforts of Carter Center, the painful guinea worm disease has been reduced from 3.5 million cases a year to 13 in 2022.

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Br4dD TIL that the Hooded Pitohui is one of the first known poisonous birds. Their feathers give off a neurotoxin (homobatrachotoxin) which causes numbness and has previously only been found in the skin of poison dart frogs. It inhabits the rainforests and tropical jungles of New Guinea.
rXo1 TIL that TEL (tetraethyl lead), an octane booster gasoline additive that was killing Standard Oil Refinery workers or rendering them mad in the 1920’s, wasn’t’ banned by the United States until 1986 largely due to business interests.
7y6O TIL Nectarines are just mutant peaches
VBBMG TIL : The Anthem of the European Union is not the Ode to Joy created by Beethoven but an arrangement by Karrajan with very minimal differences, thus yielding royalties to Karrajan instead of being in the public domain.
PYAmg TIL that Colonel Sanders was highly critical of KFC, calling it "a damn fried doughball stuck on some chicken" and "God-damned slop," while denouncing the gravy as "horrible." At times he'd surprise enter a KFC and throw the food on the floor if in disgust.