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TIL that Bob Barker is part Sioux Indian, was in the Navy, and studied Karate under Chuck Norris.

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AN7nl TIL of the Boy Scout Nuclear Science Merit Badge. The requirements to receive the badge include building a Geiger counter, planting irradiated and nonirradiated seeds, and visiting an accelerator (research lab) or university where people study the properties of the nucleus or nucleons.
nWXW TIL People born deaf don’t think in any verbal language.
yQedl TIL that cashews and mangoes are in the same botanical family as poison oak and poison ivy. Mango vines and uncooked cashews contain enough urushiol oil to cause similar rashes to ivy/oak exposure.
b9Qa7 TIL Lobster was a throwaway food in Colonial England.
91O6 TIL a flight attendant named Vesna Vulović survived a 33,333 ft fall when the plane she was in broke apart from a bomb explosion. She holds a Guinness World Records, for surviving the highest fall without a parachute