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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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NXQWe TIL casting away a ship carries the death sentence penalty
ejak TIL that the US uses less water now than it did in 1970
v1J04 TIL that elephants are tremendous distance swimmers. They can swim for up to six hours and 25 miles (48km). They are so buoyant that if they tire in the water, they can just rest by floating and will not sink. They can also use their trunk as a snorkel and dive.
ElgX TIL a 2006 trial of an autoimmune drug that was found to be safe in mice, caused human volunteers fingers and toes to die within minutes of taking it and left them with multiple organ failures.
wgJM TIL there’s a festival in Japan called ‘Kanamara Matsuri’ or 'festival of the steel phallus’. Legend has it a woman with a demonic vagina destroyed all this towns penis’s until a blacksmith made a steel penis that destroyed the vaginas teeth. Now once a year they celebrate everything penis like.