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TIL Cashews are deadly poisonous before roasting and are hard to harvest because their shells are poisonous to the touch

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R5W67 TIL that the coat of arms of House of Colleoni depicted three pairs of human testicles. The progenitor of the family was reportedly proud of this coat of arms which he displayed prominently.
4XxZa TIL that air traffic controllers get a break every 2 hours. When controllers remain "on position" for more than 2 hours without a break, performance can deteriorate rapidly, even at low traffic levels.
vPp9B TIL While traveling to the Tehran Conference in 1943 on the USS Iowa, FDR’s ship was almost torpedoed by the escorting destroyer USS William D Porter. The incident was caused when one of the destroyer’s crew members failed to remove the primer of the torpedo while doing a training exercise.
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