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TIL in 2000, three teenagers working at a New York State Thruway Burger King tampered with food for over eight months, adding spit, urine, and oven cleaner.

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oRJxo TIL that four young people drowned in a narrow passage in an underground cave in Provo Utah 2005. They think one person tried to turn around and the others were unable to pass her. They knew the cave was unsafe.
N75we TIL how common it is to have a different number of joints in the pinky toe. 56% people have two joints and three bones, 44% have one joint and two bones!
1jxO TIL Soda is so corrosive, that without BPA or equivalent liner, an aluminum can would break after three days
b6Zp TIL that after Star Trek was canceled, Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhara) volunteered for a special recruiting project at NASA where she recruited America’s first and second female, as well as black male, astronauts.
9w7Om TIL that both indica and sativa are scientific terms used In classifying rice. With oryza sativa being the plants name and variance indica meaning it comes from India.