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TIL Grass Allergy can make you food intolerant to tomatoes when it's grass pollen season

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JYxA8 TIL that in terms of the average number of steps required to link actors to other actors, Kevin Bacon is only the 543rd ranked actor in Hollywood history. The actors with the lowest average number of steps are Christopher Lee, Harvey Keitel, Christopher Plummer, Michael Caine, and Donald Sutherland
BaOD TIL: Samuel L. Jackson initially intended to pursue a degree in marine biology. He only joined a local acting group to earn extra points in a class.
9wKDX TIL in 1958 a military plane accidentally dropped an Atom Bomb on a farm near Florence, South Carolina. The nuclear reaction didn't occur, but there was still enough explosive to create a 25 foot crater!
nelYY TIL Though offered a scholarship to Princeton, Ralph Nader's father forced him to decline the offer on the grounds that the family was able to pay Nader's tuition and the funds should go to a student who could not afford it. Nader graduated magna cum laude in 1955.
wjAM TIL bats represent about 20% of all mammal species worldwide