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TIL Most people with peanut allergies can still consume highly refined peanut oil

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VLQD TIL: in 1975, after a skydiving student’s main parachute became entangled with the plane, he deployed his reserve chute. This caused the plane to stall and engines to fail. Everybody on board survived as the plane descended under the reserve chute.
bdMp TIL of the word “dumbsize”: to reduce the staff numbers of a company to such low levels that work can no longer be carried out effectively.
7Ogp TIL Army PFC LaVena Johnson’s 2005 death at a base in Balad, Iraq was ruled a “suicide.” She had a broken nose, black eye, loose teeth, burns from corrosive chemicals on her genitals and a gunshot wound.
nJrd TIL babies born to mothers who used heroin while pregnant are given tinctures of opium to treat their withdrawal
Jjyv TIL that no one knows what the Greeks called themselves. “Greek” was simply a name the Romans called them for their surrounding geological location.