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TIL that flour always needs to be cooked before being eaten (think raw cookie dough) because it can contain E. Coli and other contamination

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MeGEV TIL Louis Braille lost his sight at 5 years old after an accident trying to make holes in a piece of leather with an awl. 10 years later, he completed his system of reading and writing for use by the blind or visually impaired. Braille created his own raised-dot system by using an awl.
epwdJ TIL: Some car commercials are done with CGI. This is done because these commercials are often shot before the cars have actually been manufactured. Also it’s much harder to move these cars to the shooting locations. They use a car called the Mill Blackbird for the CGI.
gMav9 TIL Kids get a $2 discount if they read a book aloud to their barber while getting their haircut in Michigan
MeQpK TIL that until 1948 7-up contained lithium citrate, a mood stabilizer used to treat manic states and bipolar disorder
DjYj TIL that in 1944 a black teenager named George Stinney was accused of murdering two white girls on flimsy evidence, he was tried without legal representation with an all-white jury, and he was executed by electric chair at the age of 14