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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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Wk8lB TIL that in 1944, the US Mint made cents out of recycled brass shells spent in the war effort. Steel was used in 1943, but due to complaints over confusion between the steel cent and coins like the dime, the mint was pressured to make this creative change the following year.
R7Yw4 TIL that due to dark chicken meat being disliked in the US, they export it to other countries that do prefer it such as Russia. Their trade with Russia began in 1991 after the fall of the USSR. The chicken legs became so popular that they're nicknamed "Bush legs" after then President Bush Sr.
velK TIL: That A Man Renovating His Home In 1963 He Discovered A Tunnel… To A Massive Underground City.
EgmVx TIL Albatrosses can glide for thousands of kilometers without flapping wings, using a technique called dynamic soaring. By repeatedly rising into the wind and descending downwind, they gain energy from the vertical wind gradient, allowing them to cover nearly 1,000 km per day with minimal effort
a8PWA TIL about the "suicide disease"—Trigeminal Neuralgia—which has no cure, that causes sudden, sharp pain in the face so intense that it’s often described as one of the most painful conditions in existence.