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TIL that Agave - the source of all tequila - is a member of the Asparagus family

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grYrW TIL German American gymnast George Eyser won six Olympic medals in one day at the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri. Until 2008 he was the only person to compete in an Olympic Games with an artificial leg. His six medals in one day remains a record.
9YYnr TIL of Vulcan Point in the Philippines: an island within a lake within an island within a lake within an island.
7re9X Sleeping in on the weekends could help you live longer.
nO4b TIL French was the mother tongue of every English king until Henry IV
p8w6Q TIL of René Carmille, a punched-card computer expert and French double agent who is believed to have saved thousands of lives by sabotaging Nazi efforts to identify Jewish citizens. He eventually was found out, withstood torture, and sent to a concentration camp where he died in January of 1945.