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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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VMepZ TIL about the great California flood of 1861/62 when it rained continuously for 43 days, which was caused due to a phenomenon called Atmospheric rivers, creating a 300 mile long temporary sea. Sacramento was covered in 10 feet of debris filled water, and even telegraph poles were under water.
kOpbm TIL that panthers are not their own species, but rather " melanistic colour variant of any Panthera, particularly of the leopard (P. pardus) in Asia and Africa, and the jaguar (P. onca) in the Americas."
ZpZ9D TIL of the Mann Gulch Fire in 1949 that claimed the lives of 13 young firefighters. Crew Chief Wag Dodge survived by setting the first known “escape fire” but was unable to convince his men that it was their only hope of survival.
epMmn TIL that the Primaries that got Lyndon B. Johnson to the Senate were rigged
nePN9 TIL from which types of cosmic events elements come from