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TIL Southern University at New Orleans, Louisiana has a graduation rate of only 4%

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l7KgV TIL that zucchini can be toxic, there was at least one death of an elderly person, in 2015. In October 2023, a woman from Czechia ended up in hospital with severe poisoning symptoms after cooking zucchini from her garden
W0eo TIL that 1 in 28 children in the United States have a parent in state or federal prison.
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