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TIL there has never been a documented case of poison candy being handed out on Halloween.

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mLZP TIL Samuel Johnson wrote a dictionary in 1755, in which he defined oats as: “A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.” A Scottish man was said by Sir Walter Scott to have retorted, “Yes, and where else will you see such horses and such men?”
EpKV TIL AIDS denialist Christine Maggiore who refused to treat her own HIV or take any drugs that would prevent her from passing HIV to her daughter through pregnancy or breastfeeding died of AIDS…. 3.5 years after her daughter died… of AIDS.
ydy8 TIL that locksmiths swear the Baldomeric Oath, an oath about professional ethics modeled after the Hippocratic oath, which was named after the 7th century Saint Baldomerus
awjxJ TIL that the world's largest cemetery is Wadi-us-Salaam ("Valley of Peace") in Najaf, Iraq - it contains tens of millions of bodies over an area of 6 km², and approximately 500,000 new bodies from around the globe are buried there annually
1Nn7 TIL that ice can actually refer to 17 unique solid crystalline phases of water.