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TIL you can get killed from fermented food (by a bacterium that contaminates it)

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8jJX TIL of Louis Slotin, Manhattan Project physicist who died horribly after his screwdriver slipped and accidentally caused a runaway nuclear reaction.
neavo TIL Narwhals use their tusk to beat fish over the head like a pimp cane
4DRa TIL there is a parasite which breeds inside the guts of a cat. Their offspring are deposited in droppings and can then be eaten by rats. The offspring then affect the rats’ behaviour to make them less scared, and even sexually aroused, by cats, with the aim of returning to the cat guts
b94OQ TIL everything we know about research shows that mega-doses of vitamin C are absolutely, positively useless at fighting colds. All that extra orange juice will do nothing to shorten your sniffles.
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