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TIL The Manchineel trees is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off their leaves, it will burn your skin.

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x6bEw TIL that there is an official world record for time traveling. It's held by cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who has spent 803 days total in orbit around Earth. According to Einstein's theories of relativity, this would mean Sergei effectively has travelled about 0.02 seconds forward in time.
QjAk TIL during the medieval period, after a wedding the bride and groom were provided enough mead (honey wine) to last one full moon, coining the term ‘honeymoon’.
nWdmP TIL that sustaining the filibuster in US political history has, at various times, involved: preparing a pee bucket, reading the phone book, reciting recipes, and in one most remarkable case, restraining Robert La Follette from hurling a brass spittoon at Joseph Robinson in 1917.
PYAdG TIL the Great Pyramid at Giza is the oldest of the Seven Wonders and the only one still standing today. The Colossus of Rhodes, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of Zeus were destroyed. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon is still unknown.
b6EG7 TIL that, the astronomer Patrick Moore, whose fiancée was killed by a German bomb in 1943, said in 2012 that “We must take care. The Germans will try again, given another chance” and “the only good Kraut is a dead Kraut.”