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TIL Brazil Nuts May Lead To Selenium Poisoning

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m1p7p TIL that the line “ hey soul sister, ain’t that mr. mister” from Hey Soul Sister was in fact not train being a bad lyricist and repeating a word twice but the name of an actual band.
R7gm7 TIL there is no word for ‘love’ in the language of Luxembourg
ej7b TIL that Notorious BIG, DMX, Jay Z, and Busta Rhymes all attended the same highschool at the same time.
YpLXB TIL that Abraham Lincoln is believed to have both written and delivered the Gettysburg Address while suffering from smallpox.
W6jA TIL that a year after his wife’s disappearance, a Dutch crime writer wrote a book about a husband killing his wife. Without a body he wasn’t prosecuted and became a minor celebrity until, years later, the body was found and he was convicted of murder.