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TIL things about lettuce, naturally grown wild lettuce contains tropane alkaloids, the active ingredient in cocaine.

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5gOR TIL that in most elevators, the close-door button doesn’t work. It’s just a placebo. Press away, friends.
YpeGZ TIL each year U of Chicago students embark on a scavenger hunt. The 1999 list included a French Canadian, Fisher Price Baby's First Flamethrower, 5 Mensa membership cards and a nuclear reactor. Justin Kasper and Fred Niell built a plutonium-producing reactor in a single day to get 2nd place
4XWXg TIL that the first documented same-sex marriage in the Philippines is between two guerrilla fighters Ka Jose and Ka Andres, members of New People's Army, a communist organization.
xVMk0 TIL that the Galil ARM features a bottle opener on the front handguard, as magazines were being damaged by being used to open bottles.
nem1G TIL director Kevin Smith once attended his hometown theatre as a protester to his own movie, Dogma.