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

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PYVoe TIL of Norilsk, the world's northernmost city with over 100,000 habitants, where soil polution is so intense corporations could just start mining it instead of the ore deposits. Temperatures there often reach bellow -25°C (-13°F).
XRLj TIL all the penicillin in the world comes from a single moldy cantaloupe in Illinois
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