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TIL that grapefruit juice can be fatal when taken with certain medications.

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e0Xln Til about Scurvy, chronic vitamin C deficiency. "Bones that had previously broken rebreak. Old wounds open up. This is because one of the major effects of scurvy is that the body can no longer produce collagen, the glue of the body’s cells"
ep0xb TIL that in 1932, Edith Roosevelt, the Former First Lady and widow of Theodore Roosevelt, campaigned for Herbert Hoover's re-election to emphasize that the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was not her son.
eprb6 TIL less humid air increases atmospheric pressure. Air is mostly nitrogen (78%) and oxygen (21%). Water vapor is less dense than air because hydrogen is lighter, so it displaces heavier gases, reducing air density and lowering pressure when humidity is high
paRb TIL that a total solar eclipse will pass over the entire continental United States from coast to coast in 2017
lorO7 TIL in 2013 a Canadian bank robber obsessed with Taylor Swift stole a Cessna 172 from a flight school, crossed the US border and flew to Nashville undetected. The plane crashed at Nashville International Airport, killing him instantly. No one noticed the burning wreck for five hours.