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TIL humans are the "most sensitive" to the castor oil seeds: it takes 1 to kill a full grown human, 11 to kill a dog, and a massive dose of 80 to kill a duck. The seeds contain ricin which is roughly 6000 times more poisonous than cyanide.














TIL that despite repeated attempts to uncover one, there was not a single documented instance of an anti-Vietnam War protester spitting on a returning soldier


TIL the common plastic garden chair is called a "Monobloc" chair, and was once banned in Switzerland for polluting the cityscape.
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TIL in 2020 Cambridge University Library announced that two notebooks written by Charles Darwin, "worth many millions of pounds", had been missing for 20 years & had likely been stolen. One of the notebooks contains Darwin's famous Tree of Life sketch that explores the relationship between species.