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TIL of milk sickness which is a poisoning that affects individuals who ingest milk, other dairy products, or meat from a cow that has fed on the white snakeroot plant, which contains the poison tremetol.

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N4O8 TIL that 8 to 16 percent of humans are missing the Palmaris longus muscle which was once used for climbing.
aay9 TIL that the world’s first programmers were women, a fact that took 50 years to be recognised.
Eg6jV TIL that while following 2001 anthrax attacks suspect Steven Hatfill, the FBI accidentally ran over his foot. When the police responded, they gave Hatfill a fine for "walking to create a hazard."
X0Mdr TIL that the highest score in a football match was a Madagascar championship match. 149-0, and 148 of those were own goals
ReO4 TIL that during production of the film “Snakes on a Plane” the name was changed to “Pacific Air Flight 121”. Samuel L. Jackson, the lead character, successfully requested the title be changed back, saying, “That’s the only reason I took the job: I read the title.”