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TIL Smoking wild carrots will get you high

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Wr69 TIL that “baby carrots” are almost all just regular carrots cut and reshaped to look like small carrots. It was a marketing gimmick.
myeY TIL the United Kingdom writes, prints and stores all of its laws on goatskin
9YOxr TIL of Sam Patch, a man who successfully jumped from Niagara Falls, Passaic falls, and other high points before dying on a second jump over Genessee falls. Ironically, he advertised the event as "Sam's last jump" (intended as his last jump in that area; not as the last of his life).
e0Nw5 TIL until Victorian times, Father Christmas was concerned with adult feasting and merry-making. He had no particular connection with children, nor with the giving of presents, nocturnal visits, stockings or chimneys.
KXQR TIL that in 1967, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as a numbered entry was chased by the race organizer shouting “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers” while her boyfriend and other male runners provided a protective shield.