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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.

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rRQR4 TIL Quantum computers can solve problems that are impossible or would take a traditional computer an impractical amount of time (a billion years) to solve by qubits which have a third state called “superposition”, in addition to 1 and 0 that allows them to represent a one or a zero at the same time.
OGQOa TIL “Roots” was watched by an estimated 140 million viewers, with 85 percent of all television homes seeing all or part of the miniseries. Before Super Bowl 57 last year, it was the largest tv viewership ever in US history.
46xw TIL that there is a minigame in Pokemon Yellow called Pikachu’s Beach that can only be accessed through a number of complex steps
Z8wRR TIL that when falconers want to breed falcons, they wear special sex hats with pockets to catch falcon semen. Birds reared by humans often sexually imprint on the falconer. The sex hat encourages the falcon to copulate with the falconers head and collects its sperm for artificial insemination.
DLWr TIL that former Saints Safety Darren Sharper was already accused of rape in Nevada, Louisiana and Arizona when he was finally arrested for drugging and raping two women in Los Angeles. Investigators around the nation repeatedly failed to follow up on leads and test rape kits.