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TIL Grapefruits can actually increase the potency of drugs. So much so that 85 different drugs have been identified as having adverse effects if consumed with grapefruit.

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XEQER TIL that despite never getting any snow locally, Thailand has won 9 of the last 20 International Snow Sculpture Competitions held in Sapporo, Japan. They’re currently on a 3 year winning streak.
Qx6k TIL in 2001 a Columbine-style attack on a San Jose, CA community college was averted because a photo lab employee called the police when she was processing photos of the student posing with guns and homemade bombs. The police were waiting for him when he returned for his photos
pgaQ TIL Sweden didn’t allow Jews to live in the country until 1718. Before this time, Jews could only get in if they agreed to relinquish their faith practices. When they were finally granted permission to settle there, it was restricted to three cities.
edbD TIL that the Goiânia accident, “one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters” according to TIME, occurred when thieves stole a radiation capsule from an abandoned hospital because the guard took the day off to see ‘Herbie Goes Bananas’ with his family.
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