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TIL cashews, pistachios and mangoes are all in the same family of plant, meaning people with nut allergies often react to mango as well.

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e0DjJ TIL of Walter Summerford, who was struck by lightning in 1918, 1924, and 1930- each of those incidents separated by six years. He died in 1932, but in 1936 (six years after the last strike) lightning hit his gravestone one last time.
pAbA TIL that a lifeguard in South Florida was fired for saving someone who was drowning because the guy wasn’t technically in the lifeguard’s assigned area.
9yBr TIL the population density of Manhattan is much lower today than it was 100 years ago, and total population has fallen by about 25%
W70o9 TIL Graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor, Antony Hewish, built a radio telescope to observe quasars in 1967. Their discovery won the 1974 Nobel Prize – for Hewish. 50 years later, Burnell was awarded $3 Million in the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
WkkG4 "Lightning. It avoids the ocean but likes Florida. It’s attracted to the Himalayas and even more so to central Africa. And lightning almost never strikes the north or south poles."