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TIL of Colonel Johnson who publicly ate a basket of tomatoes at the Old Salem County Courthouse in 1820 to demonstrate that they were not poisonous, as was supposedly commonly thought at the time.

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VZ58 TIL: Chicago Quietly Allows .1 Second Shorter Yellow Light Tickets, Makes $8 Million. (yellow minimum = 3 seconds)
X0aeX TIL of the 1998 East Java Ninja killings, in which "ninjas" clad in all-black killed numerous people (many of which were notable religious leaders) suspected of "sorcery" after numerous cattle died mysteriously. In turn, villagers began killing anyone that suspiciously looked like a "ninja".
Yp45P TIL that McDonald's major revenue does not come from selling burgers but from their real estate. McDonald Corporation is a company with $40 billion dollars’ worth of real estate assets (before taking depreciation into account) and yearly revenues of $9 billion, of which nearly $4 billion in profit.
Yy8W TIL a cave in France has the footprints of an 8- to 10-year-old boy left in the mud 26,000 years ago alongside the paw prints of either a wolf or a large dog, the oldest evidence of human/canine relationships ever found.
awwRo Parasites of parasites—sometimes called hyperparasites—seem to be quite common. In fact, parasites of parasites are themselves prone to parasites, leading to what might appear to be an endless progression of interspecies abuse.