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TIL the best female sniper of all time was a 24 year-old Russian WWII soldier named Lyudmila Pavlichenko. She left university in Ukraine during her senior year to begin “hunting Nazis” after the Third Reich invaded the country.

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e9j6 TIL Kidney beans are toxic and possibly deadly if not pre-soaked and boiled for at least 10 minutes. Poisoning can be induced from as few as five raw beans.
mnJO TIL A woman (registered nurse) was watching the show “Flip or Flop” on HGTV and noticed a lump on hosts neck. Emailed production company to make them aware and host ended up having thyroid cancer and didn’t know.
GYVej TIL France generates roughly 73% of it's electricity from Nuclear Power, is one of the world's largest exporters of power, and has not had a single nuclear related fatality.
Bo7D TIL Carrots (which used to be of purple or white stock) were originally bred to be orange to show support for the Dutch Orange-Nassau dynasty. The seafaring dutch then spread their breed of carrot the world over.
wmVJ TIL Blackbeard was remarkably judicious in his use of force. In dozens of eyewitness accounts, there is not a single instance in which he killed anyone prior to his final, fatal battle with the Royal Navy. “I haven’t seen a single piece of evidence that Blackbeard ever used violence against anyone.”