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TIL Will Smith supports Scientology even though he is not an active member and has donated $125,000.

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1NgX TIL Sweden has become so efficient at recycling that they have run out of garbage to recycle and now import garbage from Norway to fuel it’s energy programs.
oRVn8 TIL that if you have a Brazil nut allergy, you can develop an allergic reaction if you have sex with someone who had recently consumed Brazil nuts. A study in 2007 documented the first case of a sexually transmitted allergic reaction to Brazil nuts.
699nm TIL there was disagreement over the danger of black widow spider bites until a 1933 experiment where professor Allan Blair allowed himself to be bitten. Blair also hoped to determine whether multiple bites would build immunity, but the first bite proved so painful that he decided against it.
xoO1 TIL that with only one exception, the United States Coast Guard does not award the Medal of Honor because it is their belief that nothing is “above and beyond the call of duty”.
DQ9wv TIL The inventor of Coca-Cola was inspired to make the iconic drink after sampling a French cocaine tonic called Vin Mariani, itself a favorite beverage of several Popes, Thomas Edison, and Ulysses S. Grant