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TIL that eating a large amount of cashews (or whole nuts) makes you shit orange oil droplets.

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OoxOY TIL of the Atlanta Compromise (1895) Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic education and due process in law. Blacks would not focus their demands on equality, integration, or justice.
m87y TIL most of the clothes that actor Jeff Bridges wore in the Big Lebowski were his own.
QJ1lL TIL that the thick sheet you find at the foot of hotel beds are known as beds scarves and are meant to keep the bed clean if someone lies down with their shoes still on
xyvD TIL that Michael Morton spent 25 years of a life sentence in prison for the murder of his wife. Finally after years of fighting for the rights to a DNA test on a bloody bandana found at the scene, he was exonerated by DNA evidence linking a known felon to the murder.
VMGaQ TIL Approximately 75% of US adults use some sort of vision correction. About 64% wear eyeglasses, 11% wear contact lenses and 30% of the American population is near-sighted