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TIL that eating a mango can alter a marijuana high.

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dEv8 TIL There is a conveyor belt that is 98km long in the Sahara Desert.
8aLgZ TIL about Sylbo, a language where you can say anything just by whistling.
neoeo TIL that in the 17th century, lacking chemical tests (and knowledge of disease transmission), Italian physician and autopsy pioneer Antonio Valsalva sometimes tasted the fluids he encountered in cadavers in an effort to better characterize them. "Gangrenous pus does not taste good," he wrote.
d8PvQ TIL of William Henry Johnson who was awarded the Medal of Honor in 2015 for fighting off a German raid in hand-to-hand combat, killing multiple German soldiers and rescuing a fellow soldier while experiencing 21 wounds on May 14, 1918.
VBQ5k TIL that the President of China, Xi Jinping, has a salary of roughly $22 000 a year.