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TIL Smoking wild carrots will get you high
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TIL the US didn’t have the $15m to pay France for Louisiana, so they financed it through a banks in London. Napoleon had made the deal with the US to fund his war against Great Britain and Europe. Britain allowed this deal to go through only because they didn’t want France to have their NA territory
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TIL Jacqueline Kennedy wore her blood-splattered pink Chanel suit for the rest of the day after JFK’s assassination. When asked to change her outfit, she replied “I want them to see what they have done to Jack.”
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TIL When Queen Elizabeth delivers a speech in Parliament, a member of the House of Commons is kept hostage at Buckingham Palace. The hostage is released when the Queen safely returns.
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TIL that this scene is the reason Disney refuses to release “Song of The South” (Of Splash Mountain and ‘Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah’ song fame) on TV or video. Br'er Rabbit punches a “Tar Baby” for refusing to answer him
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TIL of the great Battle of Mrs. McCormack’s Cabbage Patch, a sassy name for a fight in which Irish rebels attempt to rescue McCormack hostages from police who are using them as human shields.