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TIL almost half of all vetoes ever cast since the UN Security Council’s inception came from its member USSR/Russia

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W7rn4 TIL of the 85 known drugs that interact with grapefruit, 43 can have serious side-effects including sudden death, acute kidney failure, respiratory failure, gastrointestinal bleeding, and bone marrow suppression in people with weakened immune systems.
gn0L TIL scientists accidentally killed the world’s oldest living animal.
x6QV1 TIL about Terror Management Theory (TMT), developed by Greenberg, Solomon, and Pyszczynski, which explores how awareness of mortality creates deep psychological anxiety, managed through escapism and cultural worldviews that give life enduring meaning
jNYbX TIL that the red-eye effect in pictures is literally blood in our eyes. If a picture is taken when our pupils are dilated, they don't have enough time to constrict and the light reflects off the blood in the back of our eyes.
vPjgR TIL Tomoaki Hamatsu participated in the show "Susunu! Denpa Shōnen" where he was locked up for 335 days, he had to survive by winning things in the lottery and at the same time he started in a practically empty room and naked