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TIL that it is safe to eat the stickers that are on fruit, including the glue which is “food-grade”

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XEArE TIL of Hussain al-Shahristani. An Iraqi who was forced into solitary confinement in prison for 8 years under Saddam Hussein. He kept his sanity by “making up mathematical problems, which he then tried to solve.” He later became Iraq’s minister of higher education and scientific research.
xVxB0 TIL that Thomas Edison Jr., unlike his famous father, was a terrible inventor. Eventually, he resorted to selling snake oil like the "Edison Magno-Electric Vitalizer", embarrassing his father so much that he was given an allowance of 900 dollars a week to stop marketing his own "inventions".
La4m TIL That the solar storm of 2012 would’ve been the same strength as the Carrington Event in 1859, and if it had hit us, the damages would have been $0,6 - 2,0 trillion dollars in the US alone.
5Yj5P TIL about the Battalion Zośka, made up primarily of outlawed Polish boy scouts and girl scouts. They were responsible for the liberation of the Gęsiówka concentration camp from the Nazis in 1944. The rescued Jews went on to join these young scouts in their instrumental role in the Warsaw Uprising.
oBAPL TIL it’s a myth that burning witches alive was a common practice. The myth that is generally accepted for the Salem witch trials originated with the European witch trials where a witch was hung/beheaded then burned to prevent postmortem sorcery.