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TIL grapefruit can be detrimental by inhibiting an enzyme in the body involved in processing medication, such as blood pressure medication, and some psychiatric medications

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R5lLw TIL that Robert Fulton's steamship was named North River Steamboat, and that the name it's popularly called today, Clermont, was due to an error in a biography of Fulton. No accounts of the vessel being called Clermont during Fulton's lifetime have been found.
Gg64 TIL baseball player Tim Raines would often use cocaine between innings in the dugout, and would only slide head first to avoid breaking the cocaine vials that he carried in his back pocket.
4X0yw TIL that the British government admits to undertaking aerial release trials against it's own people, in an attempt to understand the spread of possible biological attacks
v18Ax TIL in the movie Full Metal Jacket, the actor that played Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey) came up with 150 pages of insults on his own. Also the actor that originally was playing the role couldn't yell more than 30 minutes, but when Ermey stepped in and took over, his energy never let up.
LGnd TIL Dragonflies are brutally effective killers, managing to capture their prey in midair more than 95 percent of the time