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TIL drinking grapefruit juice while on meds may cause serious interactions with your drugs or even kill you

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BWay TIL During the “Golden Age of Piracy”, famous pirates often had distinctive “Jacks” flags, which identified them to their friends and foes.
7rxvx TIL that Captain Planet took on Hitler.
RoeQ TIL the Fahrenheit system was designed with the freezing point of brine as 0 degrees, 32 degrees as the freezing point of water, and 96 degrees as the temperature of the human body. The difference between 32 and 96 was useful for instrumentation at the time (64 can be bisected 6 times).
kOvAm TIL that Donnie Dunagan, a retired United States Marine Corps drill instructor, managed to keep secret - throughout his entire career - that he was a voice actor in the Walt Disney's Bambi film, providing the voice of young Bambi.
5YnpR TIL that the "Pillars of Creation" within the Eagle Nebula are about 4-5 Light years tall