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TIL For 200 years tomatoes were considered poisonous in Europe - in reality their acidity was dissolving poisonous metals from plates

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e0O0b TIL the actor who played Barney from 1991 - 2001 became a "tantric sex guru"; David Joyner charges $350 per 4-hr session which involves sexual intercourse with the client. Joyner said: "The energy I brought up [while] in the costume is based on the foundation of tantra, which is love."
x6jvw TIL in 1987 a female orca off the Pacific coast of North America was spotted sporting a dead salmon on her head. Within weeks, individuals in two other pods also began wearing fish hats. The trend lasted a few months, then fizzled out within a year.
B5Yy TIL Abraham Lincoln once told a speech so powerful and intriguing that all the reporters simply forgot to take notes and the contents of Lincoln’s speech remains unknown.
78JLx TIL brazil declared war on germany in WW1
mxVpM TIL Cheetahs can’t roar, they can only meow, because of the absence of the hyoid bone in its neck.