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TIL if you put some cut up garlic in between your toes (or in your lady parts to treat an yeast infection), you can taste it after a little while. Garlic and onion can be sucked up by your skin and put in your blood, when the blood takes them to your lungs, you taste them when you breathe out.

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d8Vwr TIL of Jane Percy’s Poison Garden, which has ricin, strychnine, coca and more. The Duchess of Northumberland stated:”Children don't care how a plant cures (…) They want to know how it kills. Here we offer a new avenue to get people talking about the misuse of drugs—most of which grow in nature."
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9YM4r TIL that in Finland there's an old measurement unit called "poronkusema" which can be translated to "reindeer’s piss". It describes the distance a reindeer can travel without having to stop to pee which is around 7 - 7.5km. Also reindeer can't walk and pee at the same time.