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TIL there’s a difference between ranch dressing and ranch dip
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TIL about The Garrote, a device used for execution, consisting of a metal collar tightened around the neck using a screw mechanism. It crushed the throat or snapped the spinal cord, leading to a slow and painful death. Shockingly, the last executions by garrote took place as late as 1974.
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TIL we estimate humans began wearing clothes 70,000 years ago because that's when head lice diverged genetically from body lice.
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TIL the Manchineel Tree, is one of the most toxic trees in the world. Contact with its sap can cause blisters, and damage paint on cars. Ingestion of the fruit can cause severe gastroenteritis with bleeding, shock, bacterial superinfection, and compromise airways due to edema.
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TIL that Stan Lee has the highest worldwide career-film gross at $30,648,396,569 with his roles in 48 films.
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TIL Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics, which is about happiness and what makes life worth living, was only published for the first time in a modern language in 2011