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TIL that there's small amount of nicotine in potatoes and a few other veggies...

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nx07 TIL that One-Eyed Willie’s pirate ship in the Goonies was constructed without the kids allowed to see it, hoping to get a real reaction from the cast for the first take. But when they rolled and revealed it, the gang was so shocked and started cursing up a storm. The scene had to be re-shot.
4XXZb TIL that in Dallas on Elm street where JFK was shot, there are X's on the street to signify where he was hit.
xO9b TIL There is a Indian village which celebrates each girl child by planting 111 trees
EpV7 TIL all living humans are related to a single woman through an broken, maternal line. She is known as Mitochondrial Eve and is estimated to have lived around 100,000 - 200,000 years ago.
9wVrB TIL that higher doses of highly radioactive iodine-131 are safer than moderate doses, since at high doses the element kills human cells outright, while at lower doses it causes mutations instead, thus causing thyroid cancer