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TIL early Antarctic explorers used a novel treatment for snow blindness- cocaine.

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6EPKX TIL that the first Christian marriage in what is now the US was between a white man and a black woman.
yQedl TIL that cashews and mangoes are in the same botanical family as poison oak and poison ivy. Mango vines and uncooked cashews contain enough urushiol oil to cause similar rashes to ivy/oak exposure.
lxLr TIL That the first pizzeria in the US Opened in 1905 and still runs till this day, it even offered $0.05 Pizza’s for its 100th Birthday.
pR6e TIL, in a rare case of mutualism, a pod of Orcas in Australia would help hunt, capture, and kill Baleen whales.
EgVe7 TIL the word "nuclear" is very often mis-spoken as "nucular". The pronunciation has often been used to signify low intellect and it has been said by numerous famous people and referenced in shows like Family Guy, the Simpsons and Woody Allen's 1989 film Crimes and Misdemeanors