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TIL: You can be allergic to allergy medicine

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56VB TIL canned 100% pumpkin is actually 100% squash. Pumpkins can be stringy and watery and the USDA is lenient with gourd terminology, so it’s perfectly legal to label a food product as “pumpkin” when, in reality, it’s made from a different variety of squash.
N7MAE TIL that Jackie Chan, starred in a porn movie in 1975 during his early career struggle. Not only was he in a porn movie, but it remains to this day the only movie he has ever been involved with that doesn’t include a fight scene or a stunt sequence.
rM8d TIL a Pakistani squash player (Jahangir Khan) won 555 matches consecutively, the longest winning streak by any athlete in top-level professional sports as recorded by Guinness World Records.
kJwnd TIL that the moon moves about 3.8 cm farther away from Earth every year, which means that one day there will be no more total solar eclipses.
DJPv TIL that the Korean Demilitarized Zone has seen so little human activity, that several critically endangered species survive there.